Wordsworth's need of nature

"I have owed to them, in hours of weariness" The city is a place of sterility of chaotic attacks on people's very souls. In the 1790s, as well as today, the city was inhospitable to those of the population who needed freedom and natural life to thrive. William Wordsworth was one such person; living in a city took something from him. The city robbed him of part of his will to live; a will he …

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