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Favourite Book II Themes:

55-61 : Lake Windermere
84 : Peniless Poverty
144 : Drinks Station

(I also learned in my further studying of Coleridge that he wrote a radical periodical called “The Watchmen”, Which includes a brief defence of the slave trade.)

Favourite Book I Themes:

14-16 : Sojourning
63 : Slackening Thought
189-190 : Odin
296-297, 314-315 : Beneath The Night Sky
401-414 : Addressing The Holy Spirit
560-590 : Beauty and Giddy Bliss
612+ : Beginning The Prelude

book 2

Book 1

Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.
Bk 1, 305-6
The mind of man is framed even like the breath
And harmony of music. There is a dark
Invisible workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, and makes them move
In one society.
Bk 1, 351-5
Moon and stars
Were shining l’er my head; I was alone,
And seemed to be a trouble to the peace
That was among them
Bk 1, 321-4

I'm entertaining alternate-world hopes that the blindingly red cover means we'll soon get zombies and/or vampires intruding into the landscape.