BIB_ID
284048
Accession number
MA 101.2
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Display Date
undated [1821 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19 cm
Notes
Dating: Monument Commonly Called Long Meg and Her Daughters, Near the River Eden was composed between January 6 and July (probably by April), 1821; Druidical Excommunication was composed between January 17 and November 24, 1821 (probably by March 12 or a few weeks earlier).--Cf. Jackson, p. 141n and 609n.
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.
Watermark: WP / 1815.
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.
Watermark: WP / 1815.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1906.
Summary
Both poems are possibly early drafts. Two lines of "Monument Commonly Called Long Meg and her Daughters, Near the River Eden" are canceled and revised lines are penned on the verso. "Druidical Excommunication" has some revisions and differs greatly in the first seven lines from the printed text (first line here reads "Yes whether Earth receives..."). See Jackson.
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