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Summary of William Hazlitt's Wordsworth essay

In the essay Wordsworth, by William Hazlitt, he praises Mr. Wordsworth’s ingeniousness. Having succeeded in creating a new approach to writing poetry by combining the “elements of nature and human mind” (Pg. 347), William Hazlitt argues that William Wordsworth has not received due credit for his marvelous work. Disregarding traditional poetry styles, Wordsworth creates his poetry by establishing an “opposition between the spirit of humanity and the spirit of fashion and of the world” (Pg. 348). Having set a...

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