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    An Evening Pastiche: In Homage to William Wordsworth
    An Evening Pastiche: In Homage to William Wordsworth
    An Evening Pastiche: In Homage to William Wordsworth
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    An Evening Pastiche: In Homage to William Wordsworth

    By Brad Ramsey

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    A love of classic English poetry, or at least some familiarity with it, will serve readers well when diving into this collection, which pays homage to 19th-century English romantic poetry with a series of William Wordsworth pastiches that address 21st-century urban living. In wry references to Wordsworth'

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiterary Pastiche
    Release dateJun 26, 2020
    ISBN9781777035051
    An Evening Pastiche: In Homage to William Wordsworth
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    Brad Ramsey

    Brad Ramsey is a postmodernist writer who creates the art of pastiche to pay homage to poets in the English canon in first point of view narration for the original authors' and his own contemporary.

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