Season 1 · Episode 200
200: What are Wordsworth?
NOT AS MUCH AS MEMORIES OF NATURE
Classical Stuff You Should Know · DON'T ASK, WE'RE LOCKED IN A STRONG TOWER
May 31, 202257m 7s
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Show Notes
In this episode we track Wordsworth's view of how to stay happy in life, specifically through two poems: "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," and "Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont." Turns out he was idealistic when he was young and cranky when he was old. WHO KNEW