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A childhood encounter retold

A childhood encounter retold

In this episode from Wordsworth’s autobiographical Prelude, an adult poetic voice recalls taking a boat without permission as a boy. He calls it “an act of stealth / And troubled pleasure”: excitement and guilt coexist before anything frightening happens.

2.2.3 Boat Stealing (from 1799 Prelude) by William Wordsworth Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Literature
  3. /2.2.3 Boat Stealing (from 1799 Prelude) by William Wordsworth

Step-by-step lessons on OCR GCSE English Literature 2.2.3 Boat Stealing (from 1799 Prelude) by William Wordsworth. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century novel, the modern text, and the poetry cluster) alongside regular unseen-extract practice, since both components include unseen comparison questions that are usually the most time-pressured.

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