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4) The prelude
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First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...
7) Wonder lands
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Selections from favorite fantasies, including Tolkien's The Hobbit, Jansson's the Happy Moomins, Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Barrie's The Little White Bird.