21st-CENTURY OXFORD AUTHORS general editor SEAMUS PERRY This page intentionally left blank 21st-CENTURY OXFORD AUTHORS William Wordsworth edited by STEPHEN GILL 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto WithoYcesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork qStephenGill2010 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2010 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2009938555 TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby CPIAntonyRowe,Chippenham,Wiltshire ISBN 978–0–19–923861–3 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 CONTENTS ListofIllustrations xiii ListofAbbreviations xiv Introduction xv Chronology xxxi ANoteontheSelectionandItsOrdering xxxv FROMLYRICALBALLADS(1798) LinesleftuponaSeatinaYew-tree 3 TheFemaleVagrant 4 GoodyBlakeandHarryGill 11 LinesWrittenataSmallDistancefrommyHouse 15 SimonLee,theOldHuntsman 16 AnecdoteforFathers 19 WeAreSeven 21 LinesWritteninEarlySpring 23 TheThorn 24 TheLastoftheFlock 30 TheIdiotBoy 33 ExpostulationandReply 46 TheTablesTurned 47 OldManTravelling 48 LinesWrittenaFewMilesaboveTinternAbbey 49 vi contents FROMLYRICALBALLADS(1800) PrefacetoLyricalBallads(1800and1802) 57 AppendixtothePrefacetoLyricalBallads(1800and1802) 78 Hart-LeapWell 83 TheBrothers 88 ‘StrangefitsofpassionIhaveknown’ 102 Song 103 ‘Aslumberdidmyspiritseal’ 103 TheOakandtheBroom 104 LucyGray 107 TheIdleShepherd-Boys 109 PoorSusan 112 LineswrittenonaTabletinaSchool 113 TheTwoAprilMornings 114 TheFountain 115 Nutting 118 ‘Threeyearsshegrewinsunandshower’ 119 TheOldCumberlandBeggar 120 APoet’sEpitaph 125 PoemsontheNamingofPlaces 127 Michael 134 OTHERPOEMS1798–1800 TheRuinedCottage[MSB] 149 ANightPiece 162 TheTwo-PartPrelude 164 HomeatGrasmere 188 contents vii FROMPOEMS,INTWOVOLUMES(1807) TotheDaisy(‘Inyouth’) 217 ‘ShewasaPhantomofdelight’ 219 TheSailor’sMother 220 CharacteroftheHappyWarrior 221 ToH.C.,SixYearsOld 223 ‘AmongalllovelythingsmyLovehadbeen’ 224 ‘ItravelledamongunknownMen’ 224 OdetoDuty 225 Beggars 227 ToaSky-Lark 228 AliceFell 229 ResolutionandIndependence 230 ‘NunsfretnotattheirConvent’snarrowroom’ 235 ‘WhereliestheLandtowhichyonShipmustgo?’ 235 ‘WithShipstheseawassprinkledfarandnigh’ 236 ComposedUponWestminsterBridge 236 ‘‘‘BelovedVale!’’Isaid,‘‘whenIshallcon’’’ 237 ‘Theworldistoomuchwithus’ 237 ‘ItisabeauteousEvening,calmandfree’ 238 ComposedbytheSea-Side,nearCalais 238 Calais,August,1802 239 ToaFriend,ComposednearCalais 239 ‘IgrievedforBuonaparte’ 240 viii contents Calais,August15th,1802 240 OntheExtinctionoftheVenetianRepublic 241 ToToussaintL’Ouverture 241 September1st,1802 242 ComposedintheValley,nearDover 242 September,1802 243 ThoughtofaBritonontheSubjugationofSwitzerland 243 WritteninLondon,September,1802 244 London,1802 244 ‘GreatMenhavebeenamongus’ 245 ‘ItisnottobethoughtofthattheFlood’ 245 ‘WhenIhaveborneinmemorywhathastamed’ 246 October,1803(‘Onemightbelieve’) 246 October,1803(‘Thesetimestouch’) 247 ‘England!thetimeiscomewhenthoushouldstwean’ 247 October,1803(‘When,lookingonthepresentface’) 248 TotheMenofKent 248 October,1803(‘SixthousandVeterans’) 249 Anticipation,October,1803 249 RobRoy’sGrave 250 TheSolitaryReaper 253 SteppingWestward 254 Glen-Almain 255 TheMatronofJedboroughandHerHusband 256 ToaHighlandGirl 259 contents ix AddresstotheSonsofBurns 261 YarrowUnvisited 262 ToaButterfly(‘Staynearme’) 264 ‘MyheartleapsupwhenIbehold’ 264 WritteninMarch 265 ‘IwanderedlonelyasaCloud’ 265 TheSparrow’sNest 266 Gipsies 266 TotheCuckoo 267 ToaButterfly(‘I’vewatchedyou’) 268 TheGreenLinnet 269 ‘BytheirfloatingMill’ 270 StarGazers 271 PowerofMusic 272 TotheDaisy(‘Withlittlehere’) 273 TotheSameFlower(‘BrightFlower’) 275 AComplaint 275 ‘IamnotOnewhomuchoroftdelight’ 276 ‘Yes!fullsurely’twastheEcho’ 277 Lines.ComposedatGrasmere... 278 ElegiacStanzas 279 Ode(‘Therewasatime’) 281 OTHERPOEMS1800–1808 ‘WhenfirstIjourneyedhither’ 289 ‘Farewell,thoulittleNookofmountainground’ 292 EjaculationattheGraveofBurns 293