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WORDSWORTH'S "THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US": A SOURCE?

The article explores the parallelism between "The World Is Too Much With Us," a sonnet written by William Wordsworth, and the 18th century poem "An Invocation to Melancholy," by Henry Headley, and examines whether Headley's poem can be regarded as a source of Wordsworth's sonnet. It relates how both...

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Published in:English Language Notes Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 192 - 195
Main Author: Shawcross, John T.
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Mar70
Subjects:
Invocation to Melancholy, An (Poem)
World Is Too Much With Us, The (Poem : Wordsworth)
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Headley, Henry
Sonnet
Lyric poetry
Parallelism (Linguistics)
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