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Some of the effects of and motives behind Wordsworth's punctuation practices, with special reference to two major poems, and with reference to early 19th century conventions of and discussions about punctuation.
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Why is it important?
Takes seriously a neglected feature of Wordsworth's work, moving beyond literary history and textual scholarship, and arguing, by example, that punctuation in Wordsworth's poetry has significance for literary critics.
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This page is a summary of: Wordsworth's Perplexed Punctuation in ‘Michael’ and ‘Resolution and Independence’, Romanticism, April 2013, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/rom.2013.0114.
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