Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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The World is Too Much with Us

The World is Too Much with Us

William Wordsworth

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Aug 31, 2022
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     I must confess that I am fond of much of the poetry of the English romantics, especially when they shun the political, and try to reintroduce us to the marvelous creation that is all around us.  In the finest and wisest of the Romantics, in William Wordsworth for example, this engagement with sky and sea, with hill and valley, is not sentimental.  …

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