200: What are Wordsworth?

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know.
0:12.8	This is a podcast.
0:13.9	It's a podcast about classical stuff.
0:15.7	Old books, old thoughts, old philosophy.
0:18.3	And today we're going to talk about words, specifically the market words.
0:22.7	I hate this so much.
0:23.7	What they're worth?
0:24.9	It pains me.
0:26.0	What are the words worth?
0:27.6	The pun pains me.
0:29.1	The voice pains me.
0:30.4	I just, like listening to a bad baseball play-by-play.
0:34.1	That's what I was shooting for.
0:36.1	Apparently I nailed it.
0:36.9	You nailed it.
0:37.4	Good job.
0:40.4	Did you introduce the podcast?
0:42.1	Oh, you did.
0:42.7	Yes.
0:43.1	Did you black out for those 30 seconds?
0:44.4	I didn't say who we were.
0:45.5	I cringe so hard that I like curled in on myself.
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