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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... seemed centre of his own fair world . . . There follows the sunset over Grasmere , as the Pastor and his companions look back across the Lake from Loughrigg Terrace . The moment is symbolic , but not crudely so . The Solitary's ...
... seemed centre of his own fair world . . . There follows the sunset over Grasmere , as the Pastor and his companions look back across the Lake from Loughrigg Terrace . The moment is symbolic , but not crudely so . The Solitary's ...
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William Wordsworth. Seemed infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects , nor did he believe , —he saw . What wonder if his being thus became Sublime and comprehensive ! Low desires , Low thoughts had there no place ; yet was his ...
William Wordsworth. Seemed infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects , nor did he believe , —he saw . What wonder if his being thus became Sublime and comprehensive ! Low desires , Low thoughts had there no place ; yet was his ...
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... seemed to spread A gleam of comfort o'er his pallid face . Great shew of joy the Housewife made , and truly Was glad to find her conscience set at ease ; And not less glad , for sake of her good name , That the poor Sufferer had escaped ...
... seemed to spread A gleam of comfort o'er his pallid face . Great shew of joy the Housewife made , and truly Was glad to find her conscience set at ease ; And not less glad , for sake of her good name , That the poor Sufferer had escaped ...
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