NOT A POET
...the material of his nature was essentially prose...The normal condition of many poets would seem to approach the temperature to which Wordsworth’s mind could be raised only by the white heat of profoundly inward passion...the poet of unpoetical natures. -Richard Gravill, Wordsworth: The Prelude: A Selection of Critical Essays, , W.J. Harvey and Richard Gravil, editors, MacMillan, London, 1972, p.14.
I trust I have replaced your visionary dreariness
with a visionary excitement,
although I’ve kept your prosey poetry.
Compared to some, some would say
I’m not really a poet.
A Little Wordsworth
A Little Wordsworth
I am a Canadian who has been living in Australia for 33 years. I am married to a Tasmanian and have been for 30 years after 8 years in a first marriage. We have three children aged 38, 33 and 26. I am retired and at 60 spend most of my time writing.