The English language bristles with wonderful quotes, which are often detached from their poetic settings. The column will look at some this week, starting with Wordsworth’s “Bliss was it in that dawn ...

We commemorated the birthday of T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) on this day last year by returning to the poems that marked his emergence as a serious poet, and it seems appropriate to do the same this year.

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