The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a poem is itself a long poem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814 [1] (see 1814 in poetry). It was intended to be the second part of The Recluse , an unfinished larger work that was also meant to include The Prelude , Wordsworth's other long poem, which was eventually ...

‘The Excursion’ by William Wordsworth is a contemplative exploration of the profound impact of industrialization during the Romantic era. The poem juxtaposes the marvels of progress, such as rapid urbanization and global trade, with the environmental …

2018年1月12日 · The Excursion was originally published in quarto in 1814. The second edition, octavo, appeared in 1820. The Excursion was included in all the collected editions of 1827, 1832, 1836-7, 1840, 1845, 1849-50, in the Paris reprint of 1828, and in the American edition by Henry Reed. It was also republished by itself in 1836, 1844, and 1847.

…English poet William Wordsworth in The Excursion (1814), who lives in complete isolation because he can neither hear nor speak. Wordsworth provided the reader a perspective on this figure by referring to the face of the Sun—moving above …

The excursion, a poem / By William Wordsworth

Originally titled “The Ruined Cottage” and still sometimes anthologized under that name, this section forms Book I of Wordsworth’s long poem The Excursion. The narrator of the section is ...

2008年8月15日 · The Excursion: A Poem by William Wordsworth. Publication date 1853 Publisher Moxon Collection americana Book from the collections of Harvard University Language English Item Size 167.4M . Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

2023年12月22日 · It may be proper to state whence the Poem, of which The Excursion is a part, derives its Title of The Recluse.—Several years ago, when the Author retired to his native Mountains, with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind, and examine how ...

'The Excursion' is a long dramatic poem first published in 1814, and was intended to stand as the second of three poems on the rather grand subject of 'Man, Nature and Society' collectively known as 'The Recluse', with 'The Prelude' serving as its first part.

The result was The Excursion, intended as the second part of The Recluse, the first and third of which were to ‘consist chiefly of meditations in the author’s own person’. Download to read the full chapter text