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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... happy appearance - The Wanderer how affected by the sight of them . BOOK NINTH . DISCOURSE OF THE WANDERER , & c . Wanderer asserts that an active principle pervades the Universe - Its noblest seat the human soul - How lively this ...
... happy appearance - The Wanderer how affected by the sight of them . BOOK NINTH . DISCOURSE OF THE WANDERER , & c . Wanderer asserts that an active principle pervades the Universe - Its noblest seat the human soul - How lively this ...
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... happy months , And they as happy years ; the present still So like the past , and both , so firm a pledge Of a congenial future , that the wheels Of pleasure move without the aid of hope . For Mutability is Nature's bane ; And slighted ...
... happy months , And they as happy years ; the present still So like the past , and both , so firm a pledge Of a congenial future , that the wheels Of pleasure move without the aid of hope . For Mutability is Nature's bane ; And slighted ...
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... happy Valley of the Alps , " Said I , 66 once happy , cre tyrannic Power Wantonly breaking in upon the Swiss , Destroyed their unoffending Commonwealth , A popular equality doth seem Here to prevail ; and yet a House of State Stands ...
... happy Valley of the Alps , " Said I , 66 once happy , cre tyrannic Power Wantonly breaking in upon the Swiss , Destroyed their unoffending Commonwealth , A popular equality doth seem Here to prevail ; and yet a House of State Stands ...
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appeared beauty beneath Book breath bright ceased Child close clouds Cottage course dark Death deep delight desires earth face fair faith fear feel fields flowers followed frame Friend gain give given grace grave green hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hills hope hour House human kind Land leave less light live lonely look lost mind mortal mountain moved Nature never o'er objects once pains pass peace pleased pleasure poor praise present pure reached reason rest rocks round seat seemed seen sense shade side sight silent Solitary soul sound speak spirit stand steps stood stream suffering tender things thoughts truth turn Vale virtue voice walk Wanderer wild wind wish woods youth