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By James M. Garrett

laying off clean mild on Wordsworth's contested dating with an England that modified dramatically over the process his occupation, James Garrett locations the poet's lifelong try and regulate his literary illustration in the context of nationwide principles of self-determination represented through the nationwide census, nationwide survey, and nationwide museum. Garrett offers ancient historical past at the origins of those 3 associations, that have been initiated in Britain close to the flip of the 19th century, and exhibits how their improvement converged with Wordsworth's personal as a author. the result's a brand new narrative for Wordsworth reports that re-integrates the early, center, and overdue sessions of the poet's occupation. specified severe discussions of Wordsworth's poetry, together with works that aren't commonly accorded major consciousness, strength us to think again the standard view of Wordsworth as a fading middle-aged poet retreating into the hills. fairly, Wordsworth's ceaseless transforming of past poems and the flurry of recent guides among 1814 and 1820 display Wordsworth as an engaged public determine trying to 'write the state' and place himself because the nation's poet.

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