The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)

Name: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)
Author: Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William

English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century

While ...                                                   1820.
]

[Footnote 215: 1845.

    --Take thy flight;--possess, inherit                MS. and 1820.

    Now--take flight;--possess, inherit                         1836.
]

[Footnote 216: 1836.

    ... the ...                                                 1820.
    ... thy ...                                                   MS.
]

[Footnote 217: 1820.

    Or adopt the purple pinions
    Evening spreads throughout the west,
    And survey thy new dominions
    In that bright reflection drest.                              MS.
]

[Footnote 218: 1832.

    ... choral ...                                              1820.
]

[Footnote 219: 1820.

    ... sparkling vault                                           MS.
]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote CH: A mountain in Asia, dividing Armenia from Assyria, whence
the river Tigris has its source.

                         Satan, bowing low,

           *       *       *       *       *

    Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel,
    Nor staid till on _Niphates'_ top he lights.

    _Paradise Lost_, book iii. ll. 736-742.

    ED.
]




1817


The year 1817 was not specially productive of new poems. They may be
arranged thus, _The Vernal Ode_, _The Ode to Lycoris_, its _Sequel_,
_The Longest Day_, _The Pass of Kirkstone_, _Hints from the Mountains_,
and the _Lament of Mary Queen of Scots_.


VERNAL ODE[220]

Composed 1817.--Published 1820

[Composed at Rydal Mount, to place in view the immortality of succession
where immortality is denied, as far as we know, to the individual
creature.--I. F.][CI]

    Rerum Natura tota est nusquam magis quam in minimis.

    PLIN. _Nat. Hist._[CJ]

This _Vernal Ode_ was first published in the volume entitled "The River
Duddon, a series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and other poems. To
which is annexed, a Topographical Description of the Country of the
Lakes, in the north of England." In that volume its title was
_Ode.--1817_. In 1820 it was placed among the "Poems of the
Imagination." Its title was merely _Ode_, and in the table of contents
it was called "Beneath the Concave"; the page heading "Vernal Ode" being
given to it on the last three of its six pages. In 1827, and 1832, it
was transferred to the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection." In 1836 it
was returned to the class of "Poems of the Imagination."--ED.

    I

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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)

Wordsworth, William

English poetry -- 18th century; English poetry -- 19th century

While ...                                                   1820.
]

[Footnote 215: 1845.

    --Take thy flight;--possess, inherit                MS. and 1820.

    Now--take flight;--possess, inherit                         1836.
]

[Footnote 216: 1836.

    ... the ...                                                 1820.
    ... thy ...                                                   MS.
]

[Footnote 217: 1820.

    Or adopt the purple pinions
    Evening spreads throughout the west,
    And survey thy new dominions
    In that bright reflection drest.                              MS.
]

[Footnote 218: 1832.

    ... choral ...                                              1820.
]

[Footnote 219: 1820.

    ... sparkling vault                                           MS.
]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote CH: A mountain in Asia, dividing Armenia from Assyria, whence
the river Tigris has its source.

                         Satan, bowing low,

           *       *       *       *       *

    Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel,
    Nor staid till on _Niphates'_ top he lights.

    _Paradise Lost_, book iii. ll. 736-742.

    ED.
]




1817


The year 1817 was not specially productive of new poems. They may be
arranged thus, _The Vernal Ode_, _The Ode to Lycoris_, its _Sequel_,
_The Longest Day_, _The Pass of Kirkstone_, _Hints from the Mountains_,
and the _Lament of Mary Queen of Scots_.


VERNAL ODE[220]

Composed 1817.--Published 1820

[Composed at Rydal Mount, to place in view the immortality of succession
where immortality is denied, as far as we know, to the individual
creature.--I. F.][CI]

    Rerum Natura tota est nusquam magis quam in minimis.

    PLIN. _Nat. Hist._[CJ]

This _Vernal Ode_ was first published in the volume entitled "The River
Duddon, a series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and other poems. To
which is annexed, a Topographical Description of the Country of the
Lakes, in the north of England." In that volume its title was
_Ode.--1817_. In 1820 it was placed among the "Poems of the
Imagination." Its title was merely _Ode_, and in the table of contents
it was called "Beneath the Concave"; the page heading "Vernal Ode" being
given to it on the last three of its six pages. In 1827, and 1832, it
was transferred to the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection." In 1836 it
was returned to the class of "Poems of the Imagination."--ED.

    I

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