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The mind as lord and master: Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens (1983).(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20060622
Author:Wordsworth, Jonathan

Critics of Wallace Stevens have frequently drawn parallels with Wordsworth, and recent books on Wordsworth--my own included--have tended to genuflect, a little nervously, in the direction of Stevens; but no one, as far as I know, has looked in any detail at the affinities that are felt to exist between these two great Romantic poets. As a starting-point one might take Stevens' derogatory comments on this word "romantic" in his lecture "Immigration as Value" of 1948: "We must somehow cleanse imagination of the romantic," he begins, "The imagination is one of the great human ...

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