The Ruined Cottage
work by Wordsworth
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discussed in biography
- In William Wordsworth: The Recluse and The Prelude
…one of Wordsworth’s greatest poems, “The Ruined Cottage,” composed in superb blank verse in 1797. This bleak narrative records the slow, pitiful decline of a woman whose husband had gone off to the army and never returned. For later versions of this poem, Wordsworth added a reconciling conclusion, but the…
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