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In particular commissioned essays conceal the real elements of Wordsworth's existence and paintings. the amount examines his poetic fulfillment with chapters on poetic craft, the beginning of his poetry and the demanding situations it offers. The e-book bargains scholars informative supplementary fabric on Wordsworth's existence and important reception.
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Butler dates it to March–early June 1797. Butler reproduces the MS in facsimile, pp. 78–87. 7 Cowper, The Task i 534–56. The passage is extracted in my Romanticism: An Anthology (Second Edition) (Oxford, 1998), p. 9. Connections between Cowper and Wordsworth are discussed by Jonathan Wordsworth, The Music of Humanity (London, 1969), pp. 61–2 – still the best introduction to The Ruined Cottage. 8 Butler observes that The Ruined Cottage is ‘the culmination of elements present in Wordsworth’s poetry from the beginning.
At the end of the poem, the speaker experiences a moment of pure terror: In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind Nature’s gentlest boon! And, all the while, my eyes I kept On the descending moon. My horse mov’d on; hoof after hoof He rais’d and never stopp’d: When down behind the cottage roof At once the planet dropp’d. 4 With that extra stanza, we have a poem with less mystery and more of a solution. The additional lines focus on Lucy’s death at some future time, and the stanza ends with the conventional tears of an age of sensibility.
94–100) Both the suffering and the joy detailed in Lyrical Ballads are acknowledged and fused by Wordsworth as he hears the ‘still, sad music of humanity’ and is ‘A lover of the meadows and the woods / And mountains’, both suffering humanity and beautiful nature parts of that ‘mighty world’ which we halfcreate and perceive (92, 104–8). Present-day criticism of ‘Tintern Abbey’ has made the poem controversial. The contentious issue is not particularly to determine what Wordsworth 42 Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Poetry 1798–1807 claims in the poem but to judge how much of his past selves, particularly of his past political and revolutionary selves, he has concealed or abandoned to make those affirmations.