200: What are Wordsworth?

Aus Classical Stuff You Should Know A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee

In this episode we track Wordsworth's view of how to stay happy in life, specifically through two poems: "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," and "Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont." Turns out he was idealistic when he was young and cranky when he was old. WHO KNEW