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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... speak . " I see around me here Things which you cannot see : we die , my Friend , Nor we alone , but that which each man loved And prized in his peculiar nook of earth Dies with him , or is changed ; and very soon Even of the good is no ...
... speak . " I see around me here Things which you cannot see : we die , my Friend , Nor we alone , but that which each man loved And prized in his peculiar nook of earth Dies with him , or is changed ; and very soon Even of the good is no ...
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... speak , " continued he , " of One whose stock Of virtues bloom'd beneath this lowly roof . She was a Woman of a steady mind , Tender and deep in her excess of love , Not speaking inuch , pleased rather with the joy Of her own thoughts ...
... speak , " continued he , " of One whose stock Of virtues bloom'd beneath this lowly roof . She was a Woman of a steady mind , Tender and deep in her excess of love , Not speaking inuch , pleased rather with the joy Of her own thoughts ...
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... speak , at Heaven's command , to eye and ear , And speak to social Reason's inner sense , With inarticulate language . -For the Man , Who , in this spirit , 194.
... speak , at Heaven's command , to eye and ear , And speak to social Reason's inner sense , With inarticulate language . -For the Man , Who , in this spirit , 194.
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