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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... pleased , " the grey - haired Wanderer said , " When to those shining fields our notice first You turned ; and yet more pleased have from your lips Gathered this fair report of those who dwell In that Retirement ; whither , by such ...
... pleased , " the grey - haired Wanderer said , " When to those shining fields our notice first You turned ; and yet more pleased have from your lips Gathered this fair report of those who dwell In that Retirement ; whither , by such ...
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William Wordsworth. Of kindred import , pleased and satisfied , Was forced to vent his wisdom with a sigh Heaved from the heart in fortune's bitterness When he had crushed a plentiful estate By ruinous Contest , to obtain a Seat In ...
William Wordsworth. Of kindred import , pleased and satisfied , Was forced to vent his wisdom with a sigh Heaved from the heart in fortune's bitterness When he had crushed a plentiful estate By ruinous Contest , to obtain a Seat In ...
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... Pleased though sad , More pleased than sad , the grey - haired Wanderer sate ; Thanks to his pure imaginative soul Capacious and serene , his blameless life , His knowledge , wisdom , love of truth , and love Of human kind ! He was it ...
... Pleased though sad , More pleased than sad , the grey - haired Wanderer sate ; Thanks to his pure imaginative soul Capacious and serene , his blameless life , His knowledge , wisdom , love of truth , and love Of human kind ! He was it ...
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age to age aught beauty behold beneath blessed Book breath bright calm cheerful Child Church-yard clouds Cottage course dark Death delight doth dwell earth Epitaph evermore exclaimed Excursion fair fair Isle faith fancy fear feel fields flowers frame Friend grace Grasmere grave green grove hand happy hath heard heart heaven hills holy hope hour human labour less live lofty lonely look mind mortal mountain Muse Nature Nature's o'er pains pass Pastor peace pensive pity pleasure poem praise pure rest Rill rocks round rouzed S. T. Coleridge sate savage Nations seat shade shewed side sight silent silent pool smile smooth Solitary solitude sorrow soul spake speak spirit spot stood stream sublime sweet tender things thoughts tow'rds truth turn twas Vale Vicar virtue voice walk Wanderer wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wish words Wordsworth youth