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William Wordsworth

Romantic poet of the Lake District. The Prelude is his life story in verse.

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The quotes

3 quotes by or about William Wordsworth, in the order they happen.

a huge peak, black and huge

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature · memory

A boy steals a boat. A mountain rises up behind him. He repeats huge because he has no other word for it.

And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature

The mountain seems to walk after him. Nature has become alive and angry.

huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature · memory

For days after, he sees giant shapes in his mind. Nature has changed how he thinks.

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