English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1129 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Prelude and the Revolution
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The idea
The Prelude recounts Wordsworth's experience of revolutionary France, and the anchor quotes its most famous line on that hope: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive." The anchor records that the Reign of Terror then chastened Wordsworth, as it did his fellow early Romantics.
In practice
Revolutionary hope, then disillusion.
Where people slip
The line records hope later lost.
Your place on the trail
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