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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... comes in lillied Vest Prophetic of thy Reign . The Lark now strains her tuneful Throat 10 And ev'ry loud , and ... come , 40 But rosy Spring for ever bloom , And Suns eternal rise . Thomas Chatterton , Ella ( 1778 ) : ' Mynstrelles 1779 36.
... comes in lillied Vest Prophetic of thy Reign . The Lark now strains her tuneful Throat 10 And ev'ry loud , and ... come , 40 But rosy Spring for ever bloom , And Suns eternal rise . Thomas Chatterton , Ella ( 1778 ) : ' Mynstrelles 1779 36.
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... comes The yellow Autumn and the hopes o'the year Brings on to golden ripeness ; nor dispraise The pure and spotless form of that sharp time , When January spreads a pall of snow O'er the dead face of th'undistinguish'd earth . Then ...
... comes The yellow Autumn and the hopes o'the year Brings on to golden ripeness ; nor dispraise The pure and spotless form of that sharp time , When January spreads a pall of snow O'er the dead face of th'undistinguish'd earth . Then ...
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... come : The blushing apricot , and woolly peach Hang on thy walls , that ev'ry child may reach , And though thy walls be ... comes no guest , but is allow'd to eat , Without his fear , and of thy lord's own meat : Where the same beer and ...
... come : The blushing apricot , and woolly peach Hang on thy walls , that ev'ry child may reach , And though thy walls be ... comes no guest , but is allow'd to eat , Without his fear , and of thy lord's own meat : Where the same beer and ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Acknowledgements | 23 |
Copyright | |
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