Did later meet Wordsworth (dined with him) but I appreciate the “almost” inasmuch as he missed him at college and then took away little or nothing from the later encounter other than the chance to drop his name.
Did later meet Wordsworth (dined with him) but I appreciate the “almost” inasmuch as he missed him at college and then took away little or nothing from the later encounter other than the chance to drop his name.
Or if that seems unduly harsh, there is irony anyhow in the summoning up of the master of rural simplicity and solitude in this hyper-social way at a posh dinner party.
“She acquired the six-volume collected edition of Wordsworth in 1839 and read him throughout her life, taking more epigraphs for her work from him…than from any author sAve Shakespeare.” Philip Davis 188
Did later meet Wordsworth (dined with him) but I appreciate the “almost” inasmuch as he missed him at college and then took away little or nothing from the later encounter other than the chance to drop his name.
Or if that seems unduly harsh, there is irony anyhow in the summoning up of the master of rural simplicity and solitude in this hyper-social way at a posh dinner party.
“She acquired the six-volume collected edition of Wordsworth in 1839 and read him throughout her life, taking more epigraphs for her work from him…than from any author sAve Shakespeare.” Philip Davis 188
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Exactly!