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Letitia Landon and Romantic Hellenism.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20060322
Author:Comet, Noah

 
  "Wordsworth is a poet that even Plato might have admitted into his 
  republic. He is the most passionless of writers. Like the noblest 
  creations of Grecian sculpture, the divinity is shown by divine 
  repose" (Landon, Letters, 145). 

In this excerpt from a letter, Letitia Landon compliments Wordsworth by rephrasing his own concept of poetry as "emotion recollected in tranquility." Although the sentiment is familiar, she places Wordsworth in an unconventional context, the discourse of Romantic Hellenism, along with Plato and the Apollo Belvedere. An ambitious footnote to ...

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