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Caliban to the Audience: Auden's revision of Wordsworth's Sublime.(W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)

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From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20061222
Author:Cappeluti, Jo-Anne

--"A wish was now ingender'd in my fear / To cleave unto this Man" ...

--Wordsworth

"STRIDING UP TO HIM IN FURY, YOU GLARE INTO HIS UNBLINKING EYES and stop dead, transfixed with horror at seeing reflected there, not what you had always expected to see, a conqueror smiling at a conqueror, both promising mountains and marvels, but a gibbering fist-clenched creature with which you are all too unfamiliar ... the only subject that you have ... the all too solid flesh you must acknowledge as your own." (1) In the middle of W. H. Auden's mid-career prose poem, "Caliban to the ...

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