SOURCE: "A 'Word Scarce Said': Hysteria and Witchcraft in Wordsworth's 'Experimental' Poetry of 1797-1798," in ELH, Vol. 53, No. 2, Summer, 1986, pp. 357-90.
In the excerpt that follows, Bewell discusses Wordsworth's use of the hysteric and her roots in the figure of the witch to examine the connection between language and the creative imagination.
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