![]() ![]() On that best portion of a good man’s life, Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,įelt in the blood, and felt along the heart Milton thus stands as a beacon of enlightenment and integrity, a man who has the best interests of England at heart and has the skill and influence to make a real political difference.īut oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din ![]() How can England defend itself against a foreign power while there is such corruption and selfishness among its people? Wordsworth had been a staunch supporter of the French Revolution in 1789, later declaring, ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!’īut by 1802, the Revolutionary regime had given way to Napoleon’s imperial tyranny, and the Napoleonic Wars. ![]() By 1802, Wordsworth was a literary celebrity, thanks to the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which he co-authored with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in 1798. ![]()
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