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Reader: Adrian Poole Book Second continues Wordsworth’s recollections of childhood and school life in the Lake District. The exuberant games and adventures of boyhood remain, but Wordsworth begins to describe a change in his relationship with the landscape around him. Nature is no longer simply the setting for pleasure, sport and companionship: increasingly, it becomes something sought and valued for its own sake. Memories of rowing on Windermere, excursions through the hills, solitary walks and quiet moments of contemplation lead into a broader meditation on memory and consciousness. Looking back as an ad...
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Book second, School-time continued.
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life through its first years, and measured back the way I travelled when I first began
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Book second, School-time continued. Thus far, O friend, have we, though leaving much unvisited, endeavoured to retrace my life through its first years, and measured back the way I travelled when I first began to love the woods and fields.
The passion yet was in its birth, sustained as might befall by nourishment that came sought. For still, from week to week, from month to month, we lived a round of tumult. Duly were our games prolonged in summer till the daylight failed. No chair remained before the doors. The bench and threshold steps were empty. Fast asleep the laborer and the old
man who had sat a later lingerer. Yet the revelry continued in the loud uproar. At last, when all the ground was dark and the huge clouds were edged with twinkling stars, to bed we went, with weary joints and with a beating mind. Ah, is the one who ever has been young and needs a monetary voice to tame the pride
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