A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

It naturally follows for the early Wordsworth and Coleridge that the best mirrors of the radiant universe of life are those simple, spontaneous natures who have received the least admixture of social artifice and corruption.”
“Tennyson and Picturesque Poetry” (1955), in Essays in Criticism, Vol 1, No 3, July (1951), p 273, reprinted in The Interior Landscape The Literary Criticism of Marshall McLuhan, (1969), p 273
Year: 1955
Chapter: Coleridge
Compiled by William Kuhns
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