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Article: Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts.(Book Review)
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- Wordsworth Circle
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- September 22, 2002
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(Palgrave, 2001), xii + 244 pp. $49.95.
Deeanne Westbrook's Wordswarth's Biblical Ghosts offers a rich and rewarding study of Wordsworth's art, carefully situated within established scholarship at the same time that it rediscovers some too hastily supplanted insights of older scholars and provocatively and persuasively soars to new heights and in new directions.
The thesis of the book is, perhaps, deceptively simple. As the book's first line declares, "William Wordsworth discovered in biblical texts both a basis for his revolutionary poetics and models for his extraordinary poems. . . " (1). That is, Wordsworth's poetry is demonstrated to be suffused ...