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The Tables Turned

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A poem by William Wordsworth (1798) that explicitly rejects books and rational study in favor of direct experience of nature as the source of wisdom and moral knowledge.

AP course connection

Topic 5.8: 5.8 Romanticism

Unit 5

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