![]() ![]() The ensuing upsurge in British patriotic sentiment encouraged Wordsworth to write ‘In Britain is one breath’ in his sonnet "To the Men of Kent". Despite the British fleet being greatly outnumbered by French and Spanish ships, Nelson led the British Royal Navy to total victory, destroying 22 enemy ships without the loss of a single British vessel. The work is particularly significant in the Romantic canon because of its focus on childhood experience and development, a theme dear to the Romantics.Īlso in this year Britain achieved a decisive victory over the French and Spanish in the naval battle of the century, the Battle of Trafalgar. ![]() 1 He says that as a young boy he was led by Naturethe her mentioned in the first lineto borrow a boat under cover of night. The poem was not published until three months after Wordsworth’s death, and although he always referred to it as ‘the poem on the growth of my own mind’ it was finally named by his wife, Mary. Wordsworth relates one such moment in the shaping of his imagination in the well-known passage below from the first book of The Prelude. The Prelude, generally considered to be Wordsworth’s magnum opus, was first completed in 1805 yet different versions were to follow for the rest of the poet’s life. ![]()
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