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This elegantly written book amounts to a defense of poetry... It is required reading in any case. Choice 2013

This elegantly written book amounts to a defense of poetry... It is required reading in any case. Choice Overwhelment of a very positive sort is nevertheless the effect of Potkay's book on the reader. To the question posed at the outset-'Why read Wordsworth?'-he shapes through his eloquent, erudite and incisive close readings a compelling reply: we read Wordsworth because his verse sensitizes us to ethical engagement, to the kind of contact that enriches life. -- Markus Poetzsch Review of English Studies

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Adam Potkay is the William R. Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Story of Joy from the Bible to Late Romanticism, winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.

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