The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)
THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
EDITED BY
WILLIAM KNIGHT
VOL. VI
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO. 1896
The Excursion —to which the fifth volume of this edition is devoted—has been assigned to the year 1814; since it was finished, and first published, in that year,—although commenced in 1795. During the earlier stages of its composition, this poem was known, in the Wordsworth household, as The Pedlar ; and Dorothy Wordsworth tells us in one of her letters to the Beaumonts, preserved amongst the Coleorton MSS., that The Pedlar was finished at Christmas 1804. See also the Memoirs of Wordsworth , by his nephew (vol. i. p. 304, etc.), and Dorothy's Grasmere Journal, passim . But The Excursion , as we have it now, was finished for press in 1814. The poems more immediately belonging to that year are Laodamia , the Memorials of a Tour in Scotland , Dion , and two Sonnets.—Ed.
Composed 1814.—Published 1815.
In 1815 and 1820 this poem was one of those founded on the Affections ; afterwards it was classed among the Poems of the Imagination. —Ed.
William Wordsworth
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LAODAMIA
MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
THE BROWNIE'S CELL
"FROM THE DARK CHAMBERS OF DEJECTION FREED"
LINES
DEDICATION TO THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE
EPISTLE DEDICATORY
ARTEGAL AND ELIDURE
TO B. R. HAYDON
NOVEMBER 1
SEPTEMBER, 1815
"WEAK IS THE WILL OF MAN, HIS JUDGMENT BLIND"
"EVEN AS A DRAGON'S EYE THAT FEELS THE STRESS"
"MARK THE CONCENTRED HAZELS THAT ENCLOSE"
"SURPRISED BY JOY—IMPATIENT AS THE WIND"
ODE
ODE
"EMPERORS AND KINGS, HOW OFT HAVE TEMPLES RUNG"
DION
A FACT, AND AN IMAGINATION;
"A LITTLE ONWARD LEND THY GUIDING HAND"
TO ——,
ODE TO LYCORIS
TO THE SAME
THE LONGEST DAY
HINT FROM THE MOUNTAINS,
LAMENT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
THE PILGRIM'S DREAM;
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT'S CELL
MALHAM COVE
GORDALE
"AERIAL ROCK—WHOSE SOLITARY BROW"
THE WILD DUCK'S NEST
WRITTEN UPON A BLANK LEAF IN "THE COMPLETE ANGLER"
"WHEN HAUGHTY EXPECTATIONS PROSTRATE LIE"
TO THE RIVER DERWENT
COMPOSED ON EASTER SUNDAY
"GRIEF, THOU HAST LOST AN EVER READY FRIEND"
"I WATCH, AND LONG HAVE WATCHED, WITH CALM REGRET"
I HEARD (ALAS! 'TWAS ONLY IN A DREAM)
SEPTEMBER, 1819
UPON THE SAME OCCASION
COMPOSED ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM
"THE STARS ARE MANSIONS BUILT BY NATURE'S HAND"
OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820
OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820
JUNE, 1820
A PARSONAGE IN OXFORDSHIRE
TO ENTERPRISE
THE RIVER DUDDON
POSTSCRIPT
NOTE TO SONNETS XVII AND XVIII
MEMOIR OF THE REV. ROBERT WALKER
DEDICATION
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