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Author: William Wordsworth
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Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Ian Mckellen
SeriesThe Prelude, Book 2
Duration 57m
William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude is arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our language. Recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, Cumbria, Wordsworth looks back over events in his early life. Wordsworth believed that poetry should be written in the natural language of common speech, and in that way it was re...
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Author: William Wordsworth
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Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Ian Mckellen
SeriesThe Prelude, Book 1
Duration 56m
William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude is arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our language. Recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, Cumbria, Wordsworth looks back over events in his early life. Wordsworth believed that poetry should be written in the natural language of common speech, and in that way it was re...
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Author: William Wordsworth
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Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Ian Mckellen
Duration 1h 53m
William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude is arguably the most important piece of poetic writing in our language. Recorded in Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, Cumbria, Wordsworth looks back over events in his early life. Wordsworth believed that poetry should be written in the natural language of common speech, and in that way it was re...
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Author: William Wordsworth
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Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 1h 18m
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleridge, was published in 1798, and shortly afterwards he settled in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. Inspired in his early manhood by the French Revolution, he grew disillusioned with revolutionary poli...
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