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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Page 45
... stream was nobly broken , leaping from rock to rock , and foam- ing with fury . On one side a towering crag that spired up to equal , if not overtop the neighbouring cliffs ( this lay all in shade and dark- ness :) On the other hand a ...
... stream was nobly broken , leaping from rock to rock , and foam- ing with fury . On one side a towering crag that spired up to equal , if not overtop the neighbouring cliffs ( this lay all in shade and dark- ness :) On the other hand a ...
Page 112
... stream called the Wauchope that flows into the Esk near Langholme ' : ' Mickle who , as it appears from his poem on Sir Martin , was not without genuine poetic feelings , was born and passed his boyhood in this neighbourhood ' . That ...
... stream called the Wauchope that flows into the Esk near Langholme ' : ' Mickle who , as it appears from his poem on Sir Martin , was not without genuine poetic feelings , was born and passed his boyhood in this neighbourhood ' . That ...
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... stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky , Where earth and heaven do make one imagery . ... Lake Superior , formerly termed the Upper Lake , from its northern situation , is so called on account of its being superior in magnitude ...
... stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky , Where earth and heaven do make one imagery . ... Lake Superior , formerly termed the Upper Lake , from its northern situation , is so called on account of its being superior in magnitude ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Elizabeth Carter Ode to Spring 1756 | 35 |
Copyright | |
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