Stolen Words (Harvest Book)
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: April 19, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780156011365
First sentence: CENTURIES never start or end on time, and any serious reader of English literature can tell another that the eighteenth ended in 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge detonated the Lyrical Ballads, thereby blowing up the orderly colonnade of Augustan oaks and clearing the field for the Romantic era's giddy blooms.