The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8)

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Young Wordsworth
Wordsworth's
Poetical Works
volume 3
edited by
William Knight
1896
Table of Contents
• 1804
• 1805
○ The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind
○ From the Italian of Michael Angelo
• Appendices

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Wordsworth's Poetical Works
Volume 3: 1804
Edited by William Knight
1896
Table of Contents
• 1804
○ "She was a Phantom of delight"
○ "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
○ The Affliction of Margaret—
○ The Forsaken
○ Repentance
○ Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora
○ The Kitten and Falling Leaves
○ The Small Celandine
○ At Applethwaite, near Keswick
○ Vaudracour and Julia

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1804
The poems written in 1804 were not numerous; and, with the
exception of The Small Celandine, the stanzas beginning "I
wandered lonely as a cloud," and "She was a Phantom of
delight," they were less remarkable than those of the two
preceding, and the three following years. Wordsworth's
poetical activity in 1804 is not recorded, however, in
Lyrical Ballads or Sonnets, but in The Prelude, much of
which was thought out, and afterwards dictated to Dorothy
or Mary Wordsworth, on the terrace walk of Lancrigg during
that year; while the Ode, Intimations of Immortality was
altered and added to, although it did not receive its
final form till 1806. In the sixth book of The Prelude, p.
222, the lines occur: '
Four years and thirty, told this very week,
Have I been now a sojourner on earth.'
That part of the great autobiographical poem must
therefore have been composed in April, 1804.—Ed.
Contents 1804
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"She was a Phantom of delight,"

Composed 1804.—Published 1807
The Poem
[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. The germ of this poem was
four lines composed as a part of the verses on the
Highland Girl. Though beginning in this way, it was
written from my heart, as is sufficiently obvious.—I. F.]
One of the "Poems of the Imagination."—Ed.
The Poem
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