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Article: Best of Brian Wilson comes from the '60s
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- September 25, 2004
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Some readers, and I am one of them, prefer the version of "The
Prelude" that Wordsworth finished in 1805 and laid aside to the
version published soon after his death in 1850. "The Prelude" is an
autobiographical poem, and a certain freshness and immediacy
evaporated as Wordsworth revised the text. His is a case in which an
early work of art comes to have greater authority than the artist, in
later life, who made it. As a poet, the young Wordsworth overrules
his older self.
And so it is with Brian Wilson, the singer and songwriter who made
the Beach Boys what they were. He has just released a record called
"Smile," a reconstruction of a song cycle he abandoned 38 years ago.
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