I had studied
some of William
Wordsworth’s poems in high school, but it wasn’t until my English
literature courses in college that I studied him seriously. Perhaps too
seriously – our English lit professor for the period covering the Romantics
through the Moderns had received her Ph.D. in the Romantic poets. Our
tests and exams were often snippets of lines of poems – and we had to identify
which poet had written them.
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| Wordsworth as a young man |
When all else
failed, I always guessed Wordsworth as the author; his poetry had been her
particular passion. My guesses were about 85 percent right.
Perhaps it was
that experience of studying him too closely that led me away (far away) from
Wordsworth until just the past year. Studying the poetry of John Keats both
before and after I participated in a
Keats Walk in London led me back to Wordsworth.
To continue
reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
Photograph: Dove Cottage in England’s
Lake District, where Wordsworth lived from 1799 to 1808.
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