Reviews for Discovering French nouveau!

The average rating for Discovering French nouveau! based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-11-08 00:00:00 Adam Dixon I guess it is kind of backwards to mark this book as read today, since I've been reading it for months. That's just because it is a book for uni and I'm currently working on an exam paper about 3 to 4 of Wordsworth's poems. Trust me, selecting was not easy, there just so many. My rating relfects that. Of course we haven't read the entire book from cover to cover, but I think we've read most of the poems and maybe not as much of the prose or the criticism at the back. But what I have read, I really like. I think, at first I really didn't care much, this would be the second semester we worked with WW and my experience the first time around wasn't too good. But it has actually been kind of great to dive in to one single author for so long. Of course, it means that my head is pratically spinning these days. I'll be glad when this paper is handed in next Monday. Because while I like Wordsworth well enough, he isn't my favourite poet. And I'd still prefer to read his works entirely for please and not for school. PS. Of course I picked one of my favourite for my paper. "We Are Seven" is just... so fantastic.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-11 00:00:00 Patricia Rudd It has taken me a long time to work my way through this, and deliberately so, first because I wanted to take time over a poet I hadn't really read much of beyond the few we were forced to read at school, and, sadly the further on I got, because I found it a bit of a chore. I have highlighted poems and passages I want to go back and re-read, but for too much of this anthology the lack of a common point of reference and Wordsworth's sheer wordiness reduced my enjoyment. On the plus side this was a man who lived through and witnessed close up a period of massive social upheaval (especially the French Revolution) with an ability to see beyond the obvious or the accepted wisdom of the time, was willing to revise his opinion in the light of new developments, and retained a sense of compassion for others less fortunate than himself. His essays on poetry and the power of words are worth reading though again his love affair with words make them a more wearisome experience than they might have been.