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Despite Wordsworth’s growing conviction that the common workings of the heart revealed themselves more surely against the experience of loss than in the motions of unthinking joy, there was one important area where the ‘one human heart’ must retain its continuity with the sense of the ‘one life’: that of childhood.
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B. Ifor Evans, ‘The European Problem’ in Wordsworth: Centenary Studies, ed. G. T. Dunklin (Princeton, N.J., 1951), pp. 119–22.
Ellis Yamall, Wordsworth and the Coleridges (New York and London, 1899), p. 45. Quoted variatim by Russell Noyes, who gives a full account of the changes at Rydal: Wordsworth and the Art of Landscape (Bloomington, Indiana, 1968), pp. 126–35.
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Beer, J. (1978). Centres of Concord. In: Wordsworth and the Human Heart. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08710-5_8
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