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Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People (Classic Reprint)
Massachusetts A Guide to Its Places and People - Classic Reprint Author:Federal Writers' Project THE Prelude has suffered the usual fate of long poems, especially when, such poems are of a philosophical cast, of an intellectual texture-it has been but little read even by readers of the other poetry of its author-his lyrics and odes. And yet it has some of Wordsworth's most characteristic poetry, and not a little of his characteristic wisdom... more ». Few, indeed, of the poet's works arc more important for the comprehension of his Ethic than this " philosophic Song of Truth which cherishes our daily life M (Prelude, i. 229-30).
But this poem was not published by its author, nor was it named by him. It was published by the poet's wife shortly after his death, and its title was assigned by her. As to both points she showed that insight and judgment which made her through so many years a true helpmeet of the poet in
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