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March 2 William Wordsworth

30 September 201519 July 2016 Peter Wood All Poems, March, Wordsworth

DAFFODILS March, in English poetry, also inevitably recalls Wordsworth and daffodils. In our January programme I hazarded a simple definition of poetry as “an expression of feeling in musical language” . Wordsworth, who knew what he was talking about, prefaced his ‘Lyrical Ballads’ of 1798 with the following account of the poetic process, as he […]

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