The Excursion - William Wordsworth

Advantages: Highly original and intriguing thriller
Disadvantages: Some existing fans have been unimpressed

..., this ambitiously-constructed novel represents something of a new departure for the author, linking real historical figures – principally, William Wordsworth and “Bounty” mutineer Fletcher Christian - with present-day speculative fiction. The story opens when torrential rain uncovers a long-hidden, heavily-tattooed body on a Lakeland hillside. It soon becomes apparent that the age of the well-preserved body puts it well beyond the remit of the local police. Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, who comes from the area despite now living and working in London, immediately sees a possible link to one of her long-cherished beliefs: that local boy Fletcher Christian, far from dying in the massacre on Pitcairn Island as was commonly believed, had in fact secretly returned to the Lakes and may have even made contact with his old schoolfriend... Read review

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Advantages: glossary
Disadvantages: hard to find acts and scenes

...i loved this play by william shakespeare,it is a play filled with romance and happiness and tradgedy. i studied the play last year at school and i chose it because it is so famous and i felt like studying a play about tradgedy and star crossed love.i bought the book to help me with my studies and the book is made by wordsworth classics.it is set out in the scenes and acts and i felt it was alittle bit hard to get to the page in a fast time and this was a dissadvantage.At the back of the book there is a glossary which i think is an advantage as there are alot of hard words to understand and so it helps you to understand the book more easly. i think that the book should be bought for any age range above 12 as it is quite hard to understand.... Read review

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Advantages: Memorable poem!
Disadvantages: N/A

...Compare and contrast Wordsworth's and Blake's poems. What do the poems tell you about the differing attitudes towards the city? The two poems tell us a lot about the poet's respective attitudes towards the city. We learn of their (occasionally) differing attitudes towards industrialisation, nature and the like. We can observe how the two poets have used different techniques such as structure, rhyme, imagery etc. to enhance their messages. The poet William Wordsworth was born in 1770 and by the time he died on Shakespeare day in 1850 he had influenced English poetry as a whole by producing some of the greatest works in history. He was educated at grammar school and lived much of his life in amongst the northern lakes in the heart of the Lake District. The poet, artist, and printmaker William Blake on the other hand was not quite... Read review

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