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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... And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and I have heard him say That often , failing at this time to gain The peace required , he scanned the laws of light Ꭰ Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From 17.
... And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and I have heard him say That often , failing at this time to gain The peace required , he scanned the laws of light Ꭰ Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From 17.
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... gain The clearest apprehension of those truths , Which unassisted reason's utmost power Is too infirm to reach . But - waiving this , And our regards confining within bounds Of less exalted consciousness - through which The multitude ...
... gain The clearest apprehension of those truths , Which unassisted reason's utmost power Is too infirm to reach . But - waiving this , And our regards confining within bounds Of less exalted consciousness - through which The multitude ...
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... gain , ( Gain shall I call it ? -gain of what ? —for whom ? ) Should breathe a word tending to violate Your own pure spirit . Not a step we look for In slight of that forbearance and reserve Which common human - heartedness inspire ...
... gain , ( Gain shall I call it ? -gain of what ? —for whom ? ) Should breathe a word tending to violate Your own pure spirit . Not a step we look for In slight of that forbearance and reserve Which common human - heartedness inspire ...
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