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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... once bereft ; Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin ; No reck'ning made ! but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head ! HAM . Oh horrible ! oh horrible ! most horrible ! GHOST . If thou hast nature in thee , bear it not ...
... once bereft ; Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin ; No reck'ning made ! but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head ! HAM . Oh horrible ! oh horrible ! most horrible ! GHOST . If thou hast nature in thee , bear it not ...
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... once ( Through inexperience as we now perceive ) We miss'd that happiness we might have found . Some friend is gone , perhaps his son's best friend A father , whose authority , in show 30 When most severe , and must'ring all its force ...
... once ( Through inexperience as we now perceive ) We miss'd that happiness we might have found . Some friend is gone , perhaps his son's best friend A father , whose authority , in show 30 When most severe , and must'ring all its force ...
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... once liv'd here thy brethren , at my birth ( Since which I number three - score winters past ) A shatter'd veteran , hollow - trunk'd perhaps As now , and with excoriate forks deform , Relicts of ages ! Could a mind , imbued With truth ...
... once liv'd here thy brethren , at my birth ( Since which I number three - score winters past ) A shatter'd veteran , hollow - trunk'd perhaps As now , and with excoriate forks deform , Relicts of ages ! Could a mind , imbued With truth ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Acknowledgements | 23 |
Copyright | |
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