
200: What are Wordsworth?
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Wordsworth's Prelude
i really liked wordsworth when i was 22, 21, and then when i like sohperel things about orge. And then when i started writing my my dissertation on it, i realized, oh, this is bankrupth. I did a master's degree on c s Lewis's critique of romanti sm for basely these points. These are two poems of wordsworth, kind of like floundering to have the memories of beauty supply everything for him. When tintern abby can't follow through with what he says, or the promises nature never to betray the heart that loved her, well, here's a poem of nature betraying the crap out of him,
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