The ExcursionWoodstock Books, 1991 - Počet stran: 447 Though displaced in the eyes of twentieth-century readers by the Prelude (written 1798-1805, but unknown to the poet's contemporaries), the Excursion was for three generations Wordsworth's major work. It had bulk, gravitas, sonorous (sometimes beautiful) blank verse, epic pretensions. Published in 1814, it debated in the persons of the Wanderer, Pastor and Solitary the big questions of the day: the effects of the French and industrial revolutions, education, man in his relation to nature, society, God. As Wordsworth's reputation grew in the 1820s and '30s, the Excursion came, almost ex officio, to seem the grandest poem since Paradise lost. The text of 1814, like the Prelude text of 1805, was later weakened by revision. Reprinted here for the first time, it should go far to explain why Keats numbered the Excursion among the 'three things to rejoice at in [his] Age.'. |
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... human imaginations . In the Prelude there had been room for hesitation as to where the true power lay . Feeding ' upon infinity ' , the human mind had experienced ( in the manuscript - version of 1805 , published 1926 ) the sense Of God ...
... human imaginations . In the Prelude there had been room for hesitation as to where the true power lay . Feeding ' upon infinity ' , the human mind had experienced ( in the manuscript - version of 1805 , published 1926 ) the sense Of God ...
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... human passion . Sympathies there are More tranquil , yet perhaps of kindred birth , That steal upon the meditative ... human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they minister'd To human comfort ...
... human passion . Sympathies there are More tranquil , yet perhaps of kindred birth , That steal upon the meditative ... human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they minister'd To human comfort ...
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... human being destined to awake To human life , or something very near To human life , when he shall come again For whom she suffered . Yes , it would have grieved Your very soul to see her : evermore Her eyelids drooped , her eyes were ...
... human being destined to awake To human life , or something very near To human life , when he shall come again For whom she suffered . Yes , it would have grieved Your very soul to see her : evermore Her eyelids drooped , her eyes were ...
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