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Two autobiographical statements, amounting to a confession of a great debt owed to Wordsworth, are worth remembering. One describes Mill’s first encounter with Wordsworth’s poems, as printed in the two-volume edition of 1815. Reading them rescued Mill from a period of deep depression, which had begun in August 1826 and lasted through the autumn of 1828.
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Orel, H. (2005). John Stuart Mill (1806–73). In: Orel, H. (eds) William Wordsworth. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501904_11
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