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"Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized." -Benjamin Haydon You might look up at the night sky, at the vast canopy of stars we can see, and ask, exactly, what we're seeing? Image credit: Jim at Pictures Of My Universe.

The great English Romantic poet William Wordsworth died in 1850 and was succeeded as poet laureate by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Together these poets may be said to dominate English poetry during the greater part of the 19th century. Different though their works are, the course of their poetic reputations was similar and, taken together, demonstrate the fickleness of literary evaluation and reputation. Friend and early collaborator, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, noted that Wordsworth’s work “produced an eddy of criticism”. Wordsworth’s first collection, Lyrical Ballads of 1798, was published a...