200: What are Wordsworth?

Classical Stuff You Should Know - A podcast by A.J. Hanenburg, Graeme Donaldson, and Thomas Magbee - Tuesdays

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