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The Ecclesiastical Sonnets of William Wordsworth (Classic Reprint)
The Ecclesiastical Sonnets of William Wordsworth - Classic Reprint Author:William Wordsworth INTRODUCTION GENERAL DISCUSSION I The Ecclesiastical Sonnets, written when Wordsworth was fifty-one years old, should reveal him as a profound thinker and a powerful artist. During his career he had with more and more success labored for the perfect union of love and reason, those mutual factors in both life and art. Laodamia notably achieves th... more »is union in art; and the words of Pro-tesilaus to Laodamia indicate the cost of the union in life as well: transports shall be moderated, mourning shall be meek; lofty thought embodied in act has wrought deliverance; reason and self-government are to control rebellious passion, and thus affections will be raised and solemnized.1 But these words are the very message of the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, and in this very temper Wordsworth receives upon his affections the burden of institutional reason and traditional government. Has he profited by his own counsel? Is his art delivered by his lofty thought? Although in the third sonnet of the series he
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION; General Discussion i; Date of Composition 27; Manuscripts 30; Editions 42; Structure 60; MANUSCRIPT F 79; ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS; Table of Contents 112; Advertisement of 1822 117; Note of 1827 118; Text of 1850 119; VARIANT READINGS 186; NOTES 205; BIBLIOGRAPHY 305; INDEX 309; ILLUSTRATIONS; Facsimile of a page of the letter from Wordsworth to Henry Reed, September 4, 1842 In the collection of Mrs St Johnfacing 32; Facsimile of Mary Wordsworth's script, July 18, 1842; In the collection of Mrs St Johnfacing 40; Facsimile of MS F, p 51 In the collection of Mrs; St Johnfacing 42; Interior of King's College Chapel, Cambridge Reproduced from an engraving by J Greig in George Dyer's History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge, London, 1814facing 58
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