PROFESSOR RALEIGH’S book 1 is an earnest attempt to read the works of a poet by the light of the poet’s intention. It is not a criticism, nor a commentary, nor in the usual sense of the word an ...

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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World, by Jonathan Bate. Yale University Press. 608 pages. $35. William Wordsworth: A Life, by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press. 688 pages. $32.95.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, on April 7, 1770, the English poet William Wordsworth was born. We are also close to the anniversary of his death, which occurred 80 years later on April 23, 1850.