1798
2 books
- You get the Ancient Mariner with his dead albatross and glittering eye up front, then Wordsworth talking about leech-gatherers and a stubborn little girl who insists her dead siblings still count. Quiet, plainspoken poems mostly, so read it slow, a few at a time.
- You’ll like this if you can enjoy a feverish, genuinely strange Gothic novel, where Clara Wieland tries to make sense of voices, religious fervor, and her brother Theodore’s terrifying certainty. The prose can feel stiff, but the creeping psychological unease and domestic setting stay with you.