22 April 1950 From Europe and America, a distinguished army of scholars, poets and philosophers have assembled to honour the great poet
Grasmere, Friday
The Wordsworth centenary celebrations have begun. The Recluse, after “musing in solitude” through a reasonably mild winter in this famous valley, would have to start the summer migration a little early this year. Solitude, indeed, is about the only thing you are unlikely to meet here.
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