Spent the day reading The Friendship Wordsworth & Coleridge by: Adam Sisman.
I have read several biographies of Wordsworth and Coleridge, but Sisman focuses on the positive side of their friendship as opposed to the negative. Other biographies choose sides.
I have learned many things about historical facts playing in the background during the lives of these two Romantic Poets. The French Revolution has played an important part in a new hope. Wordsworth and Coleridge planned a poem that would succeed where the French Revolution failed - a poem that would literally change the world.
If you are interested in the hopes and dreams, as well as failure; take a strole through the West Country and the Lakes District of England and meet many of the players that influenced a modern lifestyle you may be familiar with today. You may even fall in love with nature and be inspired by its beauty and discover a simpler and happier lifestyle.
Who knows, maybe you will write the poem that will literally change the world, or at least yourself.
Enjoy the book and prehaps a simpler and happier lifestyle.
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