WorkWilliam Wordsworth

“Ode to Duty' 'Dion' 'Ruth','Matthew' in Poems”

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Documented 1845

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“Wordsworth moves us when he writes an "Ode to Duty," or "Dion," because he could also write "Ruth," and the exquisitely tender poems on Matthew, in "— whom nature for a favorite child / Had tempered so the clay, / That every hour the heart ran wild, / Yet never went astray.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.