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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... looks back to Warton's ' To the River Lodon ' , and would inspire Coleridge's ' To the River Otter ' ( probably ... look back , and view the tranquil tide , That laves the pebbled shore ; and now the beam 5 Of evening smiles on the ...
... looks back to Warton's ' To the River Lodon ' , and would inspire Coleridge's ' To the River Otter ' ( probably ... look back , and view the tranquil tide , That laves the pebbled shore ; and now the beam 5 Of evening smiles on the ...
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... look'd at them , And often thought ' I'll make them man and wife . ' Now Dora felt her uncle's will in all , 5 And ... look to Dora ; she is well To look to ; thrifty too beyond her age . She is my brother's daughter : he and I 15 Had ...
... look'd at them , And often thought ' I'll make them man and wife . ' Now Dora felt her uncle's will in all , 5 And ... look to Dora ; she is well To look to ; thrifty too beyond her age . She is my brother's daughter : he and I 15 Had ...
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... look'd with tears upon her boy , and thought 55 Hard things of Dora . Dora came and said , ' I have obey'd my uncle until now , And I have sinn'd , for it was all thro ' me This evil came on William at the first . But , Mary , for the ...
... look'd with tears upon her boy , and thought 55 Hard things of Dora . Dora came and said , ' I have obey'd my uncle until now , And I have sinn'd , for it was all thro ' me This evil came on William at the first . But , Mary , for the ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Acknowledgements | 23 |
Copyright | |
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