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William Wordsworth's brother John drowns in the shipwreck of the Earl of Abergavenny, which he captained. As attested in Wordsworth's grieving letters at the time ("Our loss is one which never can be made up," "my loss is great, and irreparable," "there is something cut out of my life which cannot be restored," "the set is now broken") and "Elegiac Stanzas" (composed summer 1806), this was one of the defining moments in his personal and poetic life.
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