Teach You a Lesson
2026 · Action & adventure · Drama
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TV series / 1978
Clouds of Glory
Episode directors
Ken Russell
Between 1798 and 1812, the wild, romantic country of the English Lake District saw an intense concentrated flowering of literary genius. At its centre is poet William Wordsworth, born in the region, who lived there almost all his life with his beloved sister Dorothy. Around him, as the genius of the age, gathered other poets and writers – Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey.
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Between 1798 and 1812, the wild, romantic country of the English Lake District saw an intense concentrated flowering of literary genius. At its centre is poet William Wordsworth, born in the region, who lived there almost all his life with his beloved sister Dorothy. Around him, as the genius of the age, gathered other poets and writers – Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey.
Cast
David WarnerWilliam Wordsworth
Felicity KendalDorothy Wordsworth
Bridget AshburnJoanna Hutchinson
Robin BevanYoung William
Antony CarrickUncle
Freddie FletcherTom Hutchinson
Thomas HentyJack Hutchinson
William HootkinsReverend Dewey
Preston LockwoodDr. Carr
Amanda MurrayMary Wordsworth
Patricia QuinnAnnette Vallo
Sally AdamsMrs. Hutchinson
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Trevor WilsonJohn Wordsworth
Susan WithersYoung Dorothy
Ben ArisRobert Southey
Imogen ClaireSpectre
Peter DoddHartley Coleridge
Barbara EwingAsra
Patricia GarwoodEdith Southey
David HemmingsSamuel T. Coleridge
Ronald LethamDeQuincey
Kika MarkhamSara Coleridge
Diana MatherMary Fricker
Murray MelvinRobert Lovell
Henry MoxonDr. Gillman
Annette RobertsonServant
Izabella TelezynskaMrs. Gillman
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