The Hudson Review, July 1st, 2006
Possibilities for Wordsworth IN 1950, WHEN THE CENTENARY OF WORDSWORTH'S DEATH was celebrated at Princeton, one of the speakers, Lionel Trilling, stated what he took to be a perception current at the time that Wordsworth was "not an intellectual possibility, not attractive." "Intellectual possibility" seems an odd phrase to use about a poet, as if it were somehow a primary determinant of whether the poet could be read with pleasure. Much of Trilling's essay "Wordsworth and the Iron Time" was devoted to comparing Wordsworth's "quietism" with the Pirke Aboth, a book of Jewish wisdom-sayings Tri...
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