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Poetry and the Turning World: Weather

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Jun 28, 202674:35Society & Culture

In Wordsworth’s 1807 description of ‘golden daffodils’, the breeze animates both the scene and the inner life of the speaker. Like many poets, Wordsworth turned to the weather to mediate between internal and external exp...

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Poetry and the Turning World: Weather is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. In Wordsworth’s 1807 description of ‘golden daffodils’, the breeze animates both the scene and the inner life of the speaker. Like many poet...

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