Wordsworth's "Nutting" and the Ovidian "Nux".(William Wordsworth)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Bohm, Arnd | Copyright information

And will any one say he had no right to those Acorns or Apples he thus appropriated, because he had not the consent of all Mankind to make them his? Was it a Robbery thus to assume to himself what belonged to all in Common? (1)

THE CENTRAL IMAGES OF WORDSWORTH'S POEM "NUTTING" ARE SO STRIKING that they have garnered him the highest accolades for originality. To quote but one major voice, that of Geoffrey Hartman: "Few before him would have been inspired by the event reco...

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