The ExcursionWoodstock Books, 1991 - 447 sidor 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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... Grace , be their composition what it may , If but with her's performed ; climb once again , Climb every day , those ramparts ; meet the breeze Upon their tops , -adventurous as a Bee That from your garden thither soars , to feed On new ...
... Grace , be their composition what it may , If but with her's performed ; climb once again , Climb every day , those ramparts ; meet the breeze Upon their tops , -adventurous as a Bee That from your garden thither soars , to feed On new ...
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... grace , When in the sky no promise may be seen , Fall to refresh a parched and withered land ? Or shall the groaning Spirit cast her load At the Redeemer's feet ? " In rueful tone With some impatience in his mien he spake ; And this ...
... grace , When in the sky no promise may be seen , Fall to refresh a parched and withered land ? Or shall the groaning Spirit cast her load At the Redeemer's feet ? " In rueful tone With some impatience in his mien he spake ; And this ...
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... grace Of all the lighter ornaments attached To time and season , as the year rolled round ? " " Fled ! " was the Wanderer's passionate response , " Fled utterly ! or only to be traced In a few fortunate Retreats like this ; ---- Which I ...
... grace Of all the lighter ornaments attached To time and season , as the year rolled round ? " " Fled ! " was the Wanderer's passionate response , " Fled utterly ! or only to be traced In a few fortunate Retreats like this ; ---- Which I ...
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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
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