The excursion
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T10:00:56Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T10:00:56Z |
| dc.date.created | 1814 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3137 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3137 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | English poetry -- 18th century |
| dc.title | The excursion |
| dc.title.alternative | Excursion |
| dc.type | Text |
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| identifier.ee | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 http://dx.doi.org/10.13051/ee:bio/wordswilli028005 |
| identifier.lccn | Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006595 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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The Excursion by William Wordsworth Something must now be said of this poem, but chiefly, as has been done through the whole of these notes, with reference to my personal friends, and especially to her who has perseveringly taken them down from my dictation. Towards the close of the first book stand the lines that were first written, beginning, “Nine tedious years,” and ending, “Last human tenant of these ruined walls.” These were composed in '95 at Racedown; and for several passages describing the employment and demeanour of Margaret during her affliction, I was indebted to observations made in Dorsetshire, and afterwards at Alfoxden in Somersetshire, where I resided in '97 and '98. The lines towards the conclusion of the fourth book—beginning, “For, the man, who, in this spirit,” to the words “intellectual soul”—were in order of time composed the next, either at Racedown or Alfoxden, I do not remember which. The rest of the poem was written in the vale of Grasmere, chiefly during our . . .
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