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I was using Wordsworth as a proxy for Romantic poetry, which I consider to be (as a whole) overly-flowerly and trite. The article stuck me the same way. I don'
by glymor 18y ago
I was using Wordsworth as a proxy for Romantic poetry, which I consider to be (as a whole) overly-flowerly and trite. The article stuck me the same way.
I don't rank Tennyson much as a poet. The inequality would hold on their performance as Poet Laureate though.
- ojbyrne 18y agoAnd I've always thought of the Victorians as overly mannered and reactionary. But I respect our differences of opinion.