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Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Prelude’ (Books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Aug 9, 202647:35Society & Culture

Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for actually being there to see it for himself (‘Thou wert there,’ Coleri...

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