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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Simon Lee

The full title of this poem is "Simon Lee The Old Huntsman; with an
Incident in which He Was Concerned," In this poem, as in most of the poems
of the Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth takes an incident to which he has been
witness or in which he has participated, or one that has come to him from
some other witness or participant. Here the poet has had an actual encounter
with The Old Huntsman.

This poem is a good example of Wordsworth's ambitions as a poet to make
a return to the primitive, pristine state of English poetry that existed when
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