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Hurt into Poetry


Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. —W. H. Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”   Poetry, wrote Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads, seeks to combine excitement—even the excitements of pain—with pleasure. This idea formed the nucleus of his defense of rhyme and meter: if the words and images of poetry bring us […]

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