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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

Note 228 — III. CONVERSATIONS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF WORDSWORTH.

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This was accidentally confirmed to me by an old German gentleman at Helmstadt, who had been Klopstock's school and bed-fellow. Among other boyish anecdotes, he related that the young poet set a particular value on a translation of the PARADISE LOST, and always slept with it under his pillow.

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