Word: wordsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conventional, silent, learned, a recluse, he has made few and brief appearances in public. Around such academic figures there always spring up apocryphal tales. After a better-than-ordinary dinner Housman is reported to have made this speech: "Cambridge has seen some strange sights. It has seen the poet Wordsworth drunk, and the philosopher Person sober. Tonight it sees a better poet than Person and a better philosopher than Wordsworth, neither drunk nor sober, but just betwixt-and-between...
...Wordsworth," Professor Lowes, Sever...
...with a regard for the importance of authoritative religion in his outlook, although he is very fond of the extreme modernists such as Joyee, said that he was sympathetic to only a few English poems of the Romantic Movement. Be prefers the short ones, and a few pieces of Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice...
...revolution is not a good one for poetry," stated Eliot to a CRIMSON reporter last night. "Perhaps that is why there are few poems of this period which satisfy me completely, and those rather short ones, and chiefly of Wordsworth...
...criticism of Dryden and Johnson," Eliot said, "was appropriate in a period of stasis. That of Wordsworth and Coleridge was appropriate to a period of conscious change. In Arnold we find another effort at stabilization, somewhat abortive and premature...