1. Wordsworth And Writing His Defense
... a woman's perspective he abandons his mental and physical male body and in a spiritual sense, a takes on the physical, emotional and social views of his female characters. It is important to consider that Wordsworth's purpose in the Lyrical Ballads was that the poet should " let himself slip into an entire delusion, and even confound and identify his own feelings with theirs [the character's]; modifying only the language." (1800 ... in the Idiot Boy). He experiences what we have come to call alienation, "a severe double ness in which the social self is opposed to an original self that c...
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