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Wordsworth and the Enlightenment: Nature, Man, and Society in the Experimental Poetry

Alan Bewell
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The first really thoroughgoing study of the subject can be found in this paper, where a fresh Wordsworth and, for Romanticists, a new 'anthropological' Enlightenment emerge from this book.
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"The first really thoroughgoing study of the subject. Both a fresh Wordsworth and, for Romanticists, a new 'anthropological' Enlightenment emerge from this book."-James K. Chandler

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