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"The Prelude: or Growth of a Poet's Mind"
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Work title:
"The Prelude: or Growth of a Poet's Mind"
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Date: w. 1805
"And I have scarcely pitied him; have felt / A reverence for a Being thus employ'd; / And thought that in the blind and awful lair / Of such a madness, reason did lie couch'd."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
The poet's mind is "best pleased / While she as duteous as the mother dove / Sits brooding, lives not always to that end, / But like the innocent bird, hath goadings on/ That drive her as in trouble through the groves."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1850
"[H]ow eagerly / And with what flashes, as it were, the mind / Turned this way--that way! sportive and alert / And watchful, as a kitten when at play."
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