Titlebook: De Quincey, Wordsworth and the Art of Prose; D. D. Devlin Book 1983 D. D. Devlin 1983 prose.William Wordsworth.Wordsworth.British and Iris

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De Quincey and the Magazines,ose ‘great intellectual project’ was still-born. ‘To win the recognition of editors,’ wrote a biographer, ‘he needed popular, or semi-popular subjects. Instead of impressive outlay, he must spend his mental wealth in small sums.’. Yet in earlier days he had produced nothing.

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,De Quincey and Wordsworth — II,t him the accusation he aimed at Wordsworth of a one-sidedness which showed itself in Wordsworth’s likings (De Quincey blamed him for praising Cotton extravagantly) but even more in his dislikings; De Quincey was ‘appalled’ at Wordsworth’s contempt for the ‘not sufficiently appreciated’ verse tales

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,De Quincey and Wordsworth — I,as only fourteen years old when he read his first Wordsworth poem. ‘In 1799 I had become acquainted with “We Are Seven”’, but, as he told Wordsworth in a letter some years later (1804), he had not come across it in the first edition of . but in a manuscript copy of the poem which was being circulate

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,De Quincey and Wordsworth — II,hundred allusions to Wordsworth are scattered through his collected works, but they are seldom expanded into comments on Wordsworth’s poetic practice or into specific criticisms of his poetry.. De Quincey seldom made detailed remarks on the language of any poets (except Milton) and rarely studied po

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The Art of Prose,o the originality of his prose-poems or impassioned prose. He made three divisions of what he had written; the largest section of his work was made up of what he called ‘essays’, which he defined as writings ‘which address themselves to the understanding as an insulated faculty’. Essays present a pr

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