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Wordsworth and the Druids: Warton Lecture in English Poetry 2008

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Published copy (DOI)

10.5871/bacad/9780197264584.003.0008

Author(s)

Matthew Joseph Bernard Campbell

Department/unit(s)

English and Related Literature

Publication details

Title of host publication	Proceedings of the British Academy
Date	Published - 2009
Pages	211-242
Number of pages	32
Publisher	OUP/British Academy
Volume	162
Original language	English
ISBN (Print)	978-0-19-726458-4

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the British Academy
Publisher	OUP/British Academy
Volume	162

Abstract

This lecture presents the text of the speech about English poet William Wordsworth and the druids delivered by the author at the 2008 Warton Lecture on English Poetry held at the British Academy. It provides an analysis of the beginning of Book III of The Excursion and explains the concepts of the Poet, the Wanderer, and the Solitary. The lecture suggests that Wordsworth's characters inhabit a common land until modernity takes it away from them, and that this dissolves the natural regenerative seasonal cycle in which humans now find it so difficult to live and work.

Bibliographical note

Appears in a volume of 10 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008.

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