TY - JOUR
AU1 - Boas, F. S.
AB - Reviews of Books worth, the man of strong will, and, as he does not find these statements and comments surely has just cause for complaint. Mr. Dick's claimed, worthy purpose, who laboured in his work should have been entitled 'Extracts from poetic vocation, laboured the more assiduously Aubrey's Brief Lives' or 'A Selection from the less the inspiration came'. It is with the first Wordsworth, whose creative period lay in Aubrey's Brief Lives Abbreviated and Recon- the decade between 1798 and 1808, that Miss structed'. Darbishire is here concerned. She does not join The blurb on the dust-cover states that in the guessing game as to the cause of his 'though it is designed primarily for the general subsequent decline, though such a critic as public, it will prove invaluable for scholars'. Miss Batho has queried whether it was so Actually it is a book for the general public complete as it is usually represented. rather than for the scholar and it has the merit of providing the 'common reader' with some of But in order to estimate rightly Words- the most interesting material in the Brief Lives worth's achievement some knowledge of his in a pleasant and readable 
TI - The Poet Wordsworth. The Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1949
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/8.44.91
DA - 1950-07-01
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SP - 91
EP - 92
VL - 8
IS - 44
DP - DeepDyve
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