SMP #28 The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman by William Wordsworth

The Troubadour Podcast

English - November 24, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB
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This is one of Wordsworth's most far-reaching poems. It takes place in a land he never set foot on: America.

Based on stories he read about traveling tribes of American Indians, he wrote this harrowing tale about a woman who is too sick to continue walking with her tribe, so they abandon her.