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Between 1500 and 1800 it grew steadily in size and prominence, though during the middle ages its population never reached the levels it had attained in Roman times. Its population increased, however, from perhaps 50,000 in 1500, to 300,000 in 1700, 750,000 when George II assumed the throne in 1760, and 900,000 in 1800, in spite of living conditions which, over the centuries, were so unhealthy that the rapid increase in population could be sustained, in the face of an enormously high death rate, only by a steady influx of immigrants from other parts of Britain. The streets, since medieval times, had always been filthy, filled with mud, excrement, and offal; the water was polluted, rats were omnipresent. The urbanization of London continued and intensified during the Industrial Revolution, and on through the nineteenth century. .
             From the middle ages to the nineteenth century, London was violent and squalid. London epitomized the process of social stratification which took place in Great Britain. As the city grew in size, the poor became increasingly crowded into the filthy slums in the eastern part of the city while the merchant and the professional classes and the gentry established themselves in the fashionable suburbs in the west. Homes were attacked, looted, and burned, Newgate and Fleet Prisons were attacked and their prisoners released, and troops were required to restore order. Moreover, Shelley, the same romantic poet as Wordsworth, wrote "Hell is a city much like London -- A Populous and smoky city" (the famous nineteenth-century London fogs were the result of the air pollution brought about by the burning of coal on an enormous scale). .
             According to the desperate London information above, there is another poem ,expressed about London from Wordsworth's Perspective, called "London 1802." Here is shown an angry toward England condition in the period which main institution in the society lost their right way.


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