

Violence had been committed and even worshiped in the name of the French Republic, but these ills seemed to have been forgotten forever. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. The foreign armies who invaded France in order to put a stop to the revolution have turned around in defeat, and France is now a republic. Coleridge is in the Mediterranean, and Wordsworth thinks of him as being among the 'fallen' nations. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This new composure stood him in good stead and does even as he writes (1805), when Napoleon not long since has betrayed the aims of the Revolution by being crowned emperor at the hands of the pope. The confirmed ruralist is also an avid metropolitan, making regular sorties to London throughout his life,” visiting it for the last time in 1847, three years before his death (15). Wordsworth, however, is also the occasional poet of the city, and, as Nicola Trott reminds us, “the man who is popularly regarded as an unbudgeable Grasmere fixture… spends a surprising amount of time away from home. Dr Johnson said of Paradise Lost that no man ever wished it longer, and the same is no doubt true of The Prelude, one of the very few poems in English which. 1 The poet who spent his childhood and adolescence amidst the beautiful scenery of the English Lake District returned at the age of thirty to settle there permanently (in Grasmere) at the end of 1800. We are accustomed to think of Wordsworth, to cite the opening of Percy Shelley’s sonnet dedicated to him, as the “Poet of Nature,” one to whom, as Wordsworth recalls in The Prelude, “The earth / And common face of Nature spake…/ Rememberable things” (1: 614–16).
