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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Strana 102
... round and round Eddying within its vast circumference , On Sarum's naked plain ; -than Pyramid Of Egypt , unsubverted , undissolved ; Or Syria's marble Ruins towering high Above the sandy Desart , in the light Of sun or moon . - Forgive ...
... round and round Eddying within its vast circumference , On Sarum's naked plain ; -than Pyramid Of Egypt , unsubverted , undissolved ; Or Syria's marble Ruins towering high Above the sandy Desart , in the light Of sun or moon . - Forgive ...
Strana 288
... round THE JOYFUL TREE , She bore a secret burthen ; and full soon Was left to tremble for a breaking vow , - Then , to bewail a sternly - broken vow , Alone , within her widowed Mother's house . It was the season sweet , of budding ...
... round THE JOYFUL TREE , She bore a secret burthen ; and full soon Was left to tremble for a breaking vow , - Then , to bewail a sternly - broken vow , Alone , within her widowed Mother's house . It was the season sweet , of budding ...
Strana 353
... round him . As a Tree That falls and disappears , the House is gone ; And , through improvidence , or want of love For ancient worth and honourable things , The spear and shield are vanished , which the Knight Hung in his rustic Hall ...
... round him . As a Tree That falls and disappears , the House is gone ; And , through improvidence , or want of love For ancient worth and honourable things , The spear and shield are vanished , which the Knight Hung in his rustic Hall ...
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