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		<title>Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” transforms remembered nature into moral vision — attention ripened by time becomes wisdom.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A portable sunrise: Wordsworth’s daffodils show how remembered delight restores the heart in solitude.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Solitary Reaper</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A singer in a field teaches Wordsworth an ethics of listening — mystery honored, music carried inward as lasting solace.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The World Is Too Much With Us</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A bracing sonnet against distraction and commerce — Wordsworth pleads for a restored capacity to see the world as sacred.]]></description>
		
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		<title>London, 1802</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[An urgent apostrophe to Milton — Wordsworth critiques national selfishness and calls for humble, star-like virtue.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Eve of St. Agnes (Selected Excerpts)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A winter romance in Spenserian stanzas, “The Eve of St. Agnes” stages desire at the threshold of ritual and risk.]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Autumn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 02:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“To Autumn” praises ripeness and labor, accepting time’s change with a serenity tuned to soft-dying light.]]></description>
		
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		<title>La Belle Dame sans Merci</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A modern ballad of enthrallment and warning, “La Belle Dame sans Merci” leaves desire stranded where no birds sing.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bright Star</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Keats reimagines constancy as intimacy — a star’s steadiness translated into breath and touch.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ode to a Nightingale</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” captures the longing to escape mortality through the immortal voice of song.]]></description>
		
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