[lbo-talk] John Dolan summons his literary hero

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Mar 19 07:01:15 PST 2006


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Perhaps Wordsworth goes well with age. For some 50 years I saw found his
>work quite easy to ignore, but eight years ago on a whim I picked up the
>Norton edition of The Prelude off the shelf a Barnes & Noble, and on
>another whim two years ago began to read that poem in the 1805 text. I
>was and remain enraptured.

You're inspiring me to go back. I loved The Prelude when I read it in college, but I've barely looked at it in 30 years. I think I will now. Beats reading the latest research note from the New York Fed.

Doug



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