The ExcursionWoodstock Books, 1991 - 447 sider Though displaced in the eyes of twentieth-century readers by the Prelude (written 1798-1805, but unknown to the poet's contemporaries), the Excursion was for three generations Wordsworth's major work. It had bulk, gravitas, sonorous (sometimes beautiful) blank verse, epic pretensions. Published in 1814, it debated in the persons of the Wanderer, Pastor and Solitary the big questions of the day: the effects of the French and industrial revolutions, education, man in his relation to nature, society, God. As Wordsworth's reputation grew in the 1820s and '30s, the Excursion came, almost ex officio, to seem the grandest poem since Paradise lost. The text of 1814, like the Prelude text of 1805, was later weakened by revision. Reprinted here for the first time, it should go far to explain why Keats numbered the Excursion among the 'three things to rejoice at in [his] Age.'. |
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William Wordsworth. Bearing a Coffin in the midst , with which They shaped their course along the sloping side Of that small ... course I took , Had landed upon easy ground ; and there Stood waiting for my Comrade . When behold An object 70.
William Wordsworth. Bearing a Coffin in the midst , with which They shaped their course along the sloping side Of that small ... course I took , Had landed upon easy ground ; and there Stood waiting for my Comrade . When behold An object 70.
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... course From his mid noon of manhood to old age ! He also of his Mate deprived , was left Alone - ' mid many Children ; One a Babe Orphaned as soon as born . Alas ! ' tis not In course of nature that a Father's wing Should warm these ...
... course From his mid noon of manhood to old age ! He also of his Mate deprived , was left Alone - ' mid many Children ; One a Babe Orphaned as soon as born . Alas ! ' tis not In course of nature that a Father's wing Should warm these ...
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... course pointed out , the worth of private life , through all varieties of situation and character , will be most honourably and profitably pre- served in memory . Nor would the model recommended less suit public Men , in all instances ...
... course pointed out , the worth of private life , through all varieties of situation and character , will be most honourably and profitably pre- served in memory . Nor would the model recommended less suit public Men , in all instances ...
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