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REDISCOVERING WORDSWORTH

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Talk by A. P. Ryan
The poet William Wordsworth died a hundred years ago today at the age of eighty. No English poet of modern times has had so much influence on the tastes and outlook of the ordinary man; and it is as an ordinary man-not as a literary critic— that A. P. Ryan gives his appreciation. followed by Ode
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
Read by Valentine Dyall

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Talk By:
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William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
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Valentine Dyall

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