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Article: Wordsworth's mortal remains.
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- Wordsworth Circle
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- January 1, 2003
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April 23, 1850, the date of Wordsworth's death, struck late-Victorian commentators as peculiarly significant: not only was it St. George's Day, but also Shakespeare's birth- and death-day. Many contemporary newspaper and periodical reports, however, regarded Wordsworth's death as a non-event. On April 27, the day of the funeral, The Spectator wrote: "The death of a poet creates an official vacancy--the Laureate Wordsworth has departed. It is an historical fact, but not more; for he had long been withdrawn from the world of active life, and even his pen had forgotten its function" ("News of the Week" 385). The writer expresses no grief but suggests that the "death of the ...
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