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Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.'.(poet William Wordsworth)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19990322
Author:Brennan, Matthew C.

Critics appear to read William Wordsworth's poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' as representing a moment in nature of spiritual insight that recurs during a later, imaginative recreation. However, Wordsworth placed this poem among those characterized by 'Imagination.' He also argued that sublime consciousness ruled the imagination. 'I Wandered' thus dramatizes an experience of the sublime in its first three stanzas that the poet recollects and re-experiences as a spot of time in the last stanza.

Shortly after Poems in Two Volumes (1807) appeared, Wordsworth worded about readers ...

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