This book seeks to study the Mind of a poet, specifically by picking William Wordsworth as a case study.
Havens is also the author of The Influence of Milton on English Poetry..
About the Author Raymond Dexter Havens was a professor of English at the University of Rochester and the Caroline Donovan Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.
Further, the sheer amount of verse, criticism, letters, and journals Wordsworth produced makes him an excellent choice for a study of this kind.
Besides, poetry--not, as with many other writers, religious or social problems, humanitarianism, science, politics, economics, metaphysics, or literary criticism--was the chief concern of his creative years.
Even its peculiarities, its numerous limitations, and its unusual emphases are in the main those of a poet.
The reason for signaling out Wordsworth as the person in whom to study the Mind of a Poet is that The Prelude reveals with unusual fullness a Mind that is fundamentally poetic.
This book seeks to study the Mind of a poet, specifically by picking William Wordsworth as a case study