In which essay does gardiner mention the name of wordsworth?
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Gardiner mentions the name of Wordsworth in the essay “The Sceptre and the Torch”, and she mentions how during industrial revolution.
There was a degeneration of romantic poetry because the elegies, sonnet and romantic poems received a set back as far as industrial revolution was concerned.
She also mentions about the life and time of the poet and how her book is a representative text in English literary theory.
The answer is The Sceptre and the Torch.
Gardiner mentions the name of Wordsworth in the essay The Sceptre and the Torch.
This essay is the first part in a series of lectures entitled The Profession of a Critic. Gardiner delivered the lecture in the spring of 1953 in the University of London.
As a critic, Gardiner was best known for her works about the poets T S Eliot and John Donne.