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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... peaceful days For their own sakes , as mortal life's chief good , And only reasonable felicity . What motive drew ... peace , The central feeling of all happiness , Not as a refuge from distress or pain , A breathing - time , vacation ...
... peaceful days For their own sakes , as mortal life's chief good , And only reasonable felicity . What motive drew ... peace , The central feeling of all happiness , Not as a refuge from distress or pain , A breathing - time , vacation ...
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... peace abroad ; Ranged though the mountains , slept upon the earth , Asked comfort of the open air , and found No quiet in the darkness of the night , No pleasure in the beauty of the day . His flock he slighted : his paternal fields ...
... peace abroad ; Ranged though the mountains , slept upon the earth , Asked comfort of the open air , and found No quiet in the darkness of the night , No pleasure in the beauty of the day . His flock he slighted : his paternal fields ...
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William Wordsworth. Truth's consecrated residence , the seat Impregnable , of Liberty and Peace . And yet , O happy ... peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all - beholding Man , earth's thoughtful Lord ; Then , in full many a region ...
William Wordsworth. Truth's consecrated residence , the seat Impregnable , of Liberty and Peace . And yet , O happy ... peaceful admonitions for the heart Of all - beholding Man , earth's thoughtful Lord ; Then , in full many a region ...
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