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The nineteenth-century Greens

First broadcast on Radio 4 extra, 16 July 2008
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Portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

What would 19th-century Romantic poets like Wordsworth make of modern Greens? A half-hour broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

At Wordsworth’s and John Ruskin’s beloved Thirlmere, in The Lake District, Britain’s first national campaign to preserve a piece of local landscape emerged. Beginning there and featuring interviews with experts on Wordsworth, Ruskin, William Blake and William Morris, this programme questions some of the conventional wisdom about English literature and modern environmentalism.

 


The image is a portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850), by Benjamin Robert Haydon (National Portrait Gallery)

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