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Hello, his influence on the course of English literature began within his lifetime.

So too did the case against him. He was venerated by some, admired by many,

but also at times ignored. He was famous for what now by many believed him to be the wrong things. And while many believed him to be the

wrong things and while many believed him to be the pinnacle of poetic achievement

he was often poorly reviewed and he as a poet and as a person was

disparaged. His life was full of contradictions and of course he produced some marvelous majestic poetry.

William Wordsworth today on the history of literature. Oh. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson.

Willie of Wordsworth. I first read him in college in a readings in literature course I took and we read

pride and prejudice and a few poems that I remember. One was my last Duchess by

Robert Browning and another one was the world is too much with us by this guy. This guy we're talking about today,

William Wordsworth. It became besotted with him later, besotted with his poetry, I guess, when I was taking an upper-level course

on romanticism, and although I would say he was coming in behind Keats and probably Shelley, Byron, Blake, I don't know.

I can't really rank those six.

Every time I do, I think, no, no, Byron can't be last.

Or Coleridge.

No way, Coleridge is last,

Blake, where's Wordsworth or Shelley.

I guess I've never had Keats last on the list, but I could make a case.

They're all just that good and I love them all in different ways and at different times.

Wordsworth didn't die young.

That was one of his problems.

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