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    Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
    Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
    Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
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    Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales

    Written by William Wordsworth

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    In celebration of Saint David's Day 2016 (or Dydd Dewi Sant), Librivox.org presents multiple readings of Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales by William Wordsworth. Embodying the melancholy of the uniquely welsh word "hiraeth", which roughly translates as a sense of longing for a place that can never be returned to or that never was, this poem is a fitting tribute to the celebration of the patron saint of WalesSummary by Charlotte Duckett
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Composed Among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
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    William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.

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