This line from Wordsworth's "The world is too much with us" best exemplifies what common trait of Romantic writers? "So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn" *

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

This is the political, social, cultural, and economic 'time and place' surrounding the creation of a literary text.

What do you think is the greatest invention that you use today? explain in 4 sentences