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Event:

James Jackson, schoolmaster at Sawrey, drowns in Esthwaite Lake. His clothes are left on the shore, where they are seen by William Wordsworth, age nine. This becomes the basis of the Drowned Man episode in Wordsworth's The Prelude, 5.450 ff.

Work Title

The Prelude 

Composed: 1805     Published: 1850

Book of Poems 

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9/7/1999