SOURCE: Daalder, Joost. “Wyatt and ‘Liberty’.” Essays in Criticism XXIII, No. 1 (January 1973): 63-7.
In the following essay, Daalder examines the numerous appearances of the word “liberty” throughout Wyatt's works and maintains that the word is charged with “a profound emotional significance” for the poet and “indicates a psychological freedom from nervous tension.” A postscript to this essay, published in 1985, is reprinted below under that date.
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