The Theocritean Element in the Works of William Wordsworth: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The manuscript of this treatise was completed in 1913 and found its way to the publisher early in the following year. At the beginning of the war nearly half of the work was in type, and under normal conditions the book would have been published before the end of 1914. The outbreak of hostilities, however, made at the time further progress with the publication impossible. Printing could not be resumed until late in 1919, and, even then, was resumed under difficulties and irregularities of communication between author and publisher, which, combined with the long interruption, rendered the reading of proof extremely slow, made the list of errata much larger than it would otherwise have been, and possibly opened the way for slight inconsistencies in usage.

In the long interval between the writing and publishing of these pages, my views naturally have somewhat changed, and were I to rewrite the book, much would be added, a little excised, the emphasis here and there shifted, and the whole perhaps more adequately presented. In the main, however, further study not only has strengthened my confidence in my discussion and conclusions, but has given me a deeper insight into the significance of pastoral poetry as related to literature in general and to life. My present plans include more extensive investigations in the pastoral.

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