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Literature on Foot  
Writing inspired by walking. How William Wordsworth's long Miltonic poem The Prelude uses walking as a metaphor for the journey of composition. The mental freedom of solitary walks in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker. The difference between regular walking, repeated communal acts of procession, and irregular or inspirational walking in the fourteenth-century poem Piers Plowman.
Program 228
  Participants
James Chandler
Christie McDonald
James Simpson

 

 
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