"Towards the end of his [Wordsworth's] life, he told Bonamy Price, the Oxford economist, that there had been a time when he had to push against something that resisted to be sure there was anything outside himself. When making these avowals to Price, he suited the action to the word by clenching the top of a five-barred gate that they happened to be passing, and pushing against it with all his strength."
-- Wordsworth: A Reinterpretation, F. W. Bateson, 1956, p. 60, cited in The Emergence of Romanticism, Nicholas Riasonovsky, 1992, p. 75.
No comments:
Post a Comment