ENG308Y1 Lecture 3: Simon Lee
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Rustic dwellers who have been alienated in the landscape in which he belonged. P. 286: example in which wordsworth de-sentimentalizes rustic and pastoral life. He is and sick ankles . legs are thin and dry village common . This isn"t a tale but its about the psychology of reading and writing. This is wordsworth ways of teaching us how to read. Chastised for failing to find a tale in everything. We have to engage in silent thought that can make a tale of everything. When you have an understand derived partly from books and partly from nature, you can make a tale of everything.