Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Great Regulars: We now know that Wordsworth's idea

of a writer being detached from the world, wrapped up in thoughts about nature and the imagination, was indeed ideological--as he warned us:

"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Little we see in Nature that is ours."

So, straight away, our US allies can label early Wordsworth an anti-bourgeois subversive--someone who will need to be watched.

from Michael Rosen: The Guardian: Shakespeare: the metaphorical terrorist

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