Crofts, J.

Wordsworth and the Seventeenth Century. Warton Lecture on English Poetry.

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1940. 8°. 20 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Fair condition. Signs of wear – wrappers chipped and bumped. No text markings internally. [From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVI.]

“…at the end of the eighteenth century Wordsworth is manifestly out of place. The type of experience upon which his poetry is founded is quite different from that which we see in the work both of his predecessors and of his great contemporaries.”

• Keywords: 18th Century Poetry · English Poetry · Jerome Hamilton Buckley · Jerome Hamilton Buckley Collection · Library & Collection Building · Literary Criticism · Literary Criticism – Rare · Literary Studies · Literature analysis · Literature of the 18th Century · offprint · Poetry – Rare · Romantic Literature · Romanticism
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 80486AB