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The English Programme: William Wordsworth
 
William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth

Aims

 

  • To explore the links between Wordsworth's poetry and the landscape of the Lake District.
  • To enhance students' responses to a pre-twentieth-century poet.
  • To demonstrate how Wordsworth's background and experience become the inspiration for his later writing.
  • To enhance students' understanding of the ideas and beliefs of one of the great Romantic poets.