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1. Read this brief guide to Romanticism, from the Academy of American Poets website. What aspects of romanticism are best exhibited in Wordsworth’s poetry? Give examples from the text wherever possible.


2. On this web page, Professor Glenn Everett asks his students to contemplate questions about “Lines.” Everett offers this quote: "Romantic writers, though nature poets, were humanists above all, for they dealt with the non-human only insofar as it is the occasion for the activity which defines man: thought, the process of intellection." How well does this quote apply to “Lines”? Is there another poem of Wordsworth that you think depicts this idea better? Why or why not?