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In 1819, Wordsworth published Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse which has a number of connections with the theme of travel. The chief poem of the volume is about an itinerant potter and the story may have been first discussed by Wordsworth and Coleridge as they walked the Quantock Hills in Somerset. More significantly, the geographical setting for the poem and for three of the four sonnets that accompanied it is a territory which the poet and his family traversed for many years. In many senses the locale of this volume was the preparatory land — a passage through which you journeyed before reaching home at Grasmere.
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© 1999 John Wyatt
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Wyatt, J. (1999). Peter Bell’s Company. In: Wordsworth’s Poems of Travel, 1819–42. Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286214_2
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