Wordsworth's PoetsDuncan Wu A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in The Prelude. |
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Duncan Wu. Forbear , my Muse . Let Love attune thy line . Revoke the spell . Thine Edwin frets not so . For how should he at wicked chance repine , Who feels from every change amusement flow ? Even now his eyes with smiles of rapture ...
Duncan Wu. Forbear , my Muse . Let Love attune thy line . Revoke the spell . Thine Edwin frets not so . For how should he at wicked chance repine , Who feels from every change amusement flow ? Even now his eyes with smiles of rapture ...
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... twisted , gracefu ' , round her brows , I took her for some SCOTTISH MUSE , By that same token ; And come to stop those reckless vows , Would soon been broken . 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 A ' hare - brain'd , sentimental trace ' Was 81 1786.
... twisted , gracefu ' , round her brows , I took her for some SCOTTISH MUSE , By that same token ; And come to stop those reckless vows , Would soon been broken . 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 A ' hare - brain'd , sentimental trace ' Was 81 1786.
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... Muse 168 On morow as sone as day began to clere 115 On my First Daughter 193 O North ! as thy romantick vales I leave , 134 On the late Massacre in Piedmont 202 On this lone island whose unfruitful breast 143 On this lone Isle , whose ...
... Muse 168 On morow as sone as day began to clere 115 On my First Daughter 193 O North ! as thy romantick vales I leave , 134 On the late Massacre in Piedmont 202 On this lone island whose unfruitful breast 143 On this lone Isle , whose ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Acknowledgements | 23 |
Copyright | |
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