BIB_ID
240731
Accession number
MA 101.3
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
undated [1814].
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Dating from Bushell, Butler and Jaye (p. xxvii and 468).
Part of a collection of 15 letters and manuscripts of William Wordsworth. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 101 for more information.
The so-called The Peasant's Life section was not included in the published version of The Excursion (1814).
These revised lines were possibly part of an aborted plan to include a shortened version of the so-called The Peasant's Life in Wordsworth's Poetical Works (1815).--cf. Bushell, Butler and Jaye, p. xxvii.
This draft was in use at the eighth stage of Excursion composition (or later) to revise passages in the Dove Cottage MS. 80 from the so-called The Peasant's Life section. It was at this point in drafting The Excursion that Wordsworth separated the so-called The Shepherd of Bield Crag and The Peasant's Life sections from The Excursion. See Bushell, Butler and Jaye (p. 468-471) for a discussion of this manuscript and its role in the composition of The Peasant's Life section of The Excursion.
Part of a collection of 15 letters and manuscripts of William Wordsworth. Items in the collection have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 101 for more information.
The so-called The Peasant's Life section was not included in the published version of The Excursion (1814).
These revised lines were possibly part of an aborted plan to include a shortened version of the so-called The Peasant's Life in Wordsworth's Poetical Works (1815).--cf. Bushell, Butler and Jaye, p. xxvii.
This draft was in use at the eighth stage of Excursion composition (or later) to revise passages in the Dove Cottage MS. 80 from the so-called The Peasant's Life section. It was at this point in drafting The Excursion that Wordsworth separated the so-called The Shepherd of Bield Crag and The Peasant's Life sections from The Excursion. See Bushell, Butler and Jaye (p. 468-471) for a discussion of this manuscript and its role in the composition of The Peasant's Life section of The Excursion.
Summary
Recto: A portion (ll. 378, 387-390, 435-438) of the so-called The Peasant's Life section of The Excursion (beginning "Like the shy black bird whom his distant mate" (15 ll.)), revising passages in the Dove Cottage MS. 80 (32v-33r, 34r). Verso: A portion of the so-called The Peasant's Life section of The Excursion (beginning "Come--or a theme might else be found more rich" (20 ll.)), revising passages in the Dove Cottage MS. 80 (front cover and 1r-2r). Both passages with autograph revisions.
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