A Marriage of True Minds: The Community of Faith in Wordsworth and Austen
Department
English
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2004
Abstract
This essay examines the similarity of the works of William Wordsworth and Jane Austen in terms of their commitment to the community. Focus of the poem "The Excursion," by Wordsworth on social awareness; Importance of the notion of goodness and duty to the larger community in the novel of Austen; Claim of others of the shared taste of Austen with Wordsworth and the Romantic Age.
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