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James Woudhuysen ponders what 19th-century Romantic poets would make of modern-day Greens.

Professor James Woudhuysen ponders what 19th-century Romantic poets like Wordsworth would make of modern-day Greens. From July 2008.

What would William Wordsworth have made of modern Greens? Professor James Woudhuysen investigates what Britain's 19th-century Romantic poets thought about man and nature, and finds some important differences between them and today's environmentalists. 

Producer: Kevin Mousley


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