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Article: Refashioning a Wordsworthian tradition: authority, democracy, and self-consciousness in literary studies.(Wordworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism)(Book review)
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- March 22, 1994
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Don H. Bialostosky, Wordworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism (Cambridge UP, 1992), 288 pp., $54.95 cloth.
e penultimate chapter of Don Bialostosky's important, challenging, and irksome Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism surveys the pedagogical implications of various critical approaches to Wordsworth's poetry. The final chapter addresses the notion of "liberal education" by contrasting the "philosophical poet" Wordsworth with the "enthusiastic philosopher" Allan Bloom, much to the disadvantage of the latter. In those last chapters, the book completes its circle. Bialostosky's argument begins in the Preface with the distinction ...