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The Complete Poems
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I feel like a hypocrite adding this, since its a collected edition and I'm only really a fan of a few of his poems.
The thing is, the few I'm a fan of are some of the best poems I've ever read. 'Rime', 'Aeolian Harp', 'Frost At Midnight'....
He could barely contain the imagination he held so close in some of these masterpieces. Read him at his best and you won't be dissapointed.
He used to walk fervently up the street, conversation companion in tow, talking loudly and forcefully, switching sides every 20 yards or so. He'd doze off intermittently at social occasions, wake up and go on two hour rants about Kant and Hegel and such, to everyone's rapt attention.
Sheer power of intellect and a little opium-laden imagination sure didn't hurt his place in literary history.
At his funeral, Wordsworth, weeping over his grave, said simply this: "the most Wonderful man I have ever met". I'm just bummed because there's no italics function here.
Still, I think you get the drift.
by
I feel like a hypocrite adding this, since its a collected edition and I'm only really a fan of a few of his poems.
The thing is, the few I'm a fan of are some of the best poems I've ever read. 'Rime', 'Aeolian Harp', 'Frost At Midnight'....
He could barely contain the imagination he held so close in some of these masterpieces. Read him at his best and you won't be dissapointed.
He used to walk fervently up the street, conversation companion in tow, talking loudly and forcefully, switching sides every 20 yards or so. He'd doze off intermittently at social occasions, wake up and go on two hour rants about Kant and Hegel and such, to everyone's rapt attention.
Sheer power of intellect and a little opium-laden imagination sure didn't hurt his place in literary history.
At his funeral, Wordsworth, weeping over his grave, said simply this: "the most Wonderful man I have ever met". I'm just bummed because there's no italics function here.
Still, I think you get the drift.
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Started Reading
February 15, 1997
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Finished Reading
February 14, 2008
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