...longer poem, projected but never completed, and which was to have been entitled " The Ilecluse," "as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement." " The Excursion " is a philosophical poem in blank verse, aud deals in speculations the deepest and loftiest...

...philosophical ' poem, containing views of man, nature, and society, and to be ' entitled ' The Recluse,' as having for its principal subject, the ' sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement.' These two poems together, ' The Prelude' and ' The Recluse,' were to form his great literary work,...

...philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled the 'Recluse;' as having for its principal subject the sensations and...a poet living in retirement. "The preparatory poem la biographical, and conducts the history of the Author's mind to the point when he was emboldened...

...philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled ;he 'Recluse;' as having for its principal subject the sensations and...sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which, he had proposed to himself; and the two works have the same kind of relation to each...

...containing viewa of Man, Xature, and Society ; and to be entitled, the * The Prelude.— Ed. Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sensations and...sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which he had proposed to himself; and the two Works have the same 'kind of relation to each...

...philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled the 'Recluse;' as having for its principal subject the sensations and...mind to the point when he was emboldened to hope that hia faculties were sufficiently matured for entering upon tho arduous labour which he had proposed...

...philosophical poem, containing views oi Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled " The Recluse," as having for its principal subject the sensations and...faculties were sufficiently matured for entering upon the u* duous labour which he had proposed to himself ; and the two works have the same kind of relation...

...of Man, Nature, and Society ; and to he entitled. The Recluse ; as having for its principal suhject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement— The preparatory poem is hiographical, and conducts the history of the Author's mind to the point when he was emholdened to...

...philosophical poem, containing views of man, nature, and society : and to be entitled, "The Recluse ;" as having for its principal subject the sensations and...sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which he had proposed to himself ; and the two works have the same kind of relation to each...

...given to the world till 1850. It contains a history of the growth and workings of the poet's mind, up to ' the point when he was emboldened to hope that...sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which he bad proposed to himself,' that namely of ' constructing a literary work that might...