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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth novel. A total of 345 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the dec
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth.Edited by William Knight.PREFACE During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition of his Poetical Works in eight volumes,
- 301 By peals of thunder, clap on clap! And many a terror-striking flash;-- And somewhere, as it seems, a crash, 1819.] [Variant 29: 1820. And rattling ... 1819,] [Variant 30: 1836. (Compressing six lines into four.) The voice, to move commiseration, Prolongd
- 302 1819. And happiest far is he, the One No longer with himself at strife, A Caesar past the Rubicon! The Sailor, Man by nature gay, Found not a scruple in _his_ way; 1836. The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.] [Variant 42: 1836. Deems that she is happi
- 303 The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.] [Variant 55: 1845. The previous eight lines were added in 1836, when they read thus: Say more: for by that power a vein Seems opened of brow-saddening pain: As if their hearts by notes were stung From out the low
- 304 [Variant 66: 1836.His doubts--his fears ... 1819.][Variant 67: 1827. (Compressing two lines into one.) Sometimes, as in the present case, Will show a more familiar face; 1819.Or, proud all rivals.h.i.+p to chase, Will haunt me with familiar face; 1820.][V
- 305 NOTES ON THE TEXT (Added in the edition of 1836) I Several years after the event that forms the subject of the foregoing poem, in company with my friend, the late Mr. Coleridge, I happened to fall in with the person to whom the name of Benjamin is given.
- 306 'Yes, I, and all about me here, Through all the changes of the year, Had seen him through the mountains go, In pomp of mist or pomp of snow, Majestically huge and slow: Or, with a milder grace adorning The landscape of a summer's morning; While
- 307 THE PRELUDE, OR, GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEM Composed 1799-1805.--Published 1850 ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nT The following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805.The design and occasion o
- 308 GRASMERE, May 1, 1805."Unable to proceed with this work, [B] I turned my thoughts again to the 'Poem on my own Life', and you will be glad to hear that I have added 300 lines to it in the course of last week. Two books more will conclude it
- 309 BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION.--CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME O there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.Whate'er its mission, th
- 310 FOOTNOTES TO BOOK THE FIRST [Footnote A: On the authority of the poet's nephew, and others, the "city" here referred to has invariably been supposed to be Goslar, where he spent the winter of 1799. Goslar, however, is as unlike a "vast
- 311 [Footnote Z: He went to Hawkshead School in 1778.--Ed.][Footnote a: About mid October the autumn crocus in the garden "snaps"in that district.--Ed.][Footnote b: Possibly in the Claife and Colthouse heights to the east of Esthwaite Water; but mor
- 312 When summer came, Our pastime was, on bright half-holidays, 55 To sweep, along the plain of Windermere With rival oars; [B] and the selected bourne Was now an Island musical with birds That sang and ceased not; now a Sister Isle Beneath the oaks' umb
- 313 [Footnote L: Compare the reference to the "rude piece of self-taught art," at the Swan Inn, in the first canto of 'The Waggoner', p. 81.William Hutchinson, in his 'Excursion to the Lakes in 1773 and 1774'(second edition, 1776
- 314 Her pealing organ was my neighbour too; And from my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood 60 Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging t
- 315 Ed.][Footnote I: 'Date obolum Belisario'. Belisarius, a general of the Emperor Justinian's, died 564 A.D. The story of his begging charity is probably a legend, but the "begging scholar" was common in Christendom throughout the Mi
- 316 [Footnote D: The Vale of Esthwaite.--Ed.][Footnote E: Hawkshead Church; an old Norman structure, built in 1160, the year of the foundation of Furness Abbey. It is no longer "snow-white," a so-called Restoration having taken place within recent y
- 317 'This Lawn, a carpet all alive.'(1829.) And Horace, 'Epistolae', lib. i. ep. xi. l. 28: 'Strenua nos exercet inertia.'Ed.][Footnote V: The "brook" is Sawrey beck, and the "long ascent" is the second of the
- 318 [Footnote B: Compare Emily Bronte's statement of the same, in the last verse she wrote: 'Though Earth and Man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.There is not room for Dea
- 319 [Footnote F: Wordsworth's earliest teachers, before he was sent to Hawkshead School, were his mother and the Rev. Mr. Gilbanks at c.o.c.kermouth, and Mrs. Anne Birkett at Penrith. His mother and Dame Birkett taught him to read, and trained his infant
- 320 BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS The leaves were fading when to Esthwaite's banks And the simplicities of cottage life I bade farewell; and, one among the youth Who, summoned by that season, reunite As scattered birds troop to the fowler's lure
- 321 With those delightful pathways we advanced, For two days' s.p.a.ce, in presence of the Lake, That, stretching far among the Alps, a.s.sumed 690 A character more stern. The second night, From sleep awakened, and misled by sound Of the church clock tel
- 322 [Footnote Q: Brougham Castle, at the junction of the Lowther and the Emont, about a mile out of Penrith, south-east, on the Appleby road.This castle is a.s.sociated with other poems. See the 'Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle'.--Ed.][Footnote
- 323 [Footnote m: "Her road elms rustling thin above my head."(See 'Descriptive Sketches', vol. i. pp. 39, 40, and compare the two pa.s.sages in detail.)--Ed.][Footnote n: On the 29th July 1790.--Ed.][Footnote o: They were at Lyons on the 3
- 324 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON Six changeful years have vanished since I first Poured out (saluted by that quickening breeze Which met me issuing from the City's [A] walls) A glad preamble to this Verse: [B] I sang Aloud, with fervour irresistible
- 325 Though reared upon the base of outward things, 650 Structures like these the excited spirit mainly Builds for herself; scenes different there are, Full-formed, that take, with small internal help, Possession of the faculties,--the peace That comes with ni
- 326 l. 53.--Ed.][Footnote Z: Solomon Gesner (or Gessner), a landscape artist, etcher, and poet, born at Zurich in 1730, died in 1787. His 'Tod Abels' (the death of Abel), though the poorest of all his works, became a favourite in Germany, France, and Englan
- 327 Enough of humble arguments; recal, My Song! those high emotions which thy voice Has heretofore made known; that bursting forth Of sympathy, inspiring and inspired, When everywhere a vital pulse was felt, 480 And all the several frames of things, like star
- 328 [Variant 10: ... calling, ...MS. to Sir George Beaumont, 1805.][Variant 11: ... rich, the old man now (l. 44) Is generous, so gaiety prevails Which all partake of, young and old. Immense (l. 55) MS. to Sir George Beaumont, 1805.][Variant 12: ... green fie
- 329 [Footnote O: See Spenser, 'The Shepheard's Calendar (May)'.--Ed.][Footnote P: An Italian river in Calabria, famous for its groves and the fine-fleeced sheep that pastured on its banks. See Virgil, 'Georgics'iv. 126; Horace, 'Odes' II. vi. 10.--Ed.]
- 330 [Footnote q: There is a cave, called Yordas Cave, four and a half miles from Ingleton in Lonsdale, Yorks.h.i.+re. It is a limestone cavern, rich in stalact.i.tes, like the grotto of Antiparos; and is at the foot of the slopes of Gragreth, formerly called
- 331 Would'st thou not chide? Yet deem not my pains lost: For Vaudracour and Julia (so were named 565 The ill-fated pair) in that plain tale will draw Tears from the hearts of others, when their own Shall beat no more. Thou, also, there may'st read, At leisu
- 332 [Footnote W: Chambord; "celebre chateau du Blaisois (Loir-et-Cher), construit par Francois I., sur l'emplacement d'une maison de plaisance des comtes de Blois.Donne par Louis XV. a son beau-pere Stanislas, puis au Marechal de Saxe, il revint ensuit a l
- 333 They who with clumsy desperation brought A river of Blood, and preached that nothing else Could cleanse the Augean stable, by the might 585 Of their own helper have been swept away; Their madness stands declared and visible; Elsewhere will safety now be s
- 334 [Footnote W: Compare the sonnet, vol. ii. p. 332, beginning: 'Jones! as from Calais southward you and I Went pacing side by side, this public Way Streamed with the pomp of a too-credulous day, When faith was pledged to new-born Liberty.'Ed.][Footnote X:
- 335 Depressed, bewildered thus, I did not walk With scoffers, seeking light and gay revenge From indiscriminate laughter, nor sate down In reconcilement with an utter waste Of intellect; such sloth I could not brook, 325 (Too well I loved, in that my spring o
- 336 BOOK TWELFTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED Long time have human ignorance and guilt Detained us, on what spectacles of woe Compelled to look, and inwardly oppressed With sorrow, disappointment, vexing thoughts, Confusion of the judgment
- 337 With settling judgments now of what would last And what would disappear; prepared to find 65 Presumption, folly, madness, in the men Who thrust themselves upon the pa.s.sive world As Rulers of the world; to see in these, Even when the public welfare is th
- 338 It was a close, warm, breezeless summer night, Wan, dull, and glaring, with a dripping fog Low-hung and thick that covered all the sky; But, undiscouraged, we began to climb The mountain-side. The mist soon girt us round, 15 And, after ordinary travellers
- 339 [Footnote M: The death of his brother John. Compare the 'Elegiac Verses'in memory of him, p. 58.--Ed.]FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHAEL ANGELO Translated 1805?--Published 1807 [Translations from Michael Angelo, done at the request of Mr. Duppa, whose
- 340 FROM THE SAME. TO THE SUPREME BEING Translated 1804?--Published 1807 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."--Ed.III The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed If Thou the spirit give by which I pray: My una.s.sisted heart is barren clay, That [1]
- 341 When from the restlessness of crowded life Back to my native vales I turned, and fixed My habitation in this peaceful spot, Sharp season was it of continuous storm In deepest winter; and, from week to week, Pathway, and lane, and public way were clogged W
- 342 (See p. 197, 'The Prelude', book iv. ll. 323-38) If the farm-house where Wordsworth spent the evening before this memorable morning walk was either at Elterwater or High Arnside, and the homeward pathway led across the ridge of Ironkeld, either
- 343 The crag exactly answers the poet's description, a rising ground, the meeting-place of two highways. For in the poet's time the old Hawkshead and Outgate road at the Pullwyke corner ran at the very foot of the rising ground (roughly speaking) pa
- 344 O Friend! too well thou know'st, of what sad years 75 The long suppression had benumbed my soul, That, even as Life returns upon the Drown'd, The unusual Joy awoke a throng of Pains-- Keen Pangs of LOVE, awakening, as a Babe, Turbulent, with an outcry i
- 345 No other General Beaupuy is recorded in the history of the Revolution, so far as I have been able to ascertain. The moral character of the officer, whose life I shall relate, answers to Wordsworth's description, and is worthy of his high estimate.Arm