Article: Wordsworth's Poems of 1807 and the Haunting cry of Alice Fell.(William Wordsworth)(Critical essay)

Originally delivered at the 2007 Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere, UK, the occasion of this essay is the bicentenary of Wordsworth's Poems in Two Volumes, published by Longman in May, 1807. With 115 poems, twice the length of the Lyrical Ballads, 1800, Wordsworth was concerned, as he wrote to Sir George Beaumont, with his reader's response: "There is no forming a true estimate of a Vol. of small poems by reading them all together; one stands in the way of the other" (MY 95). Nonetheless, he told Sir Walter Scott he had confidence in these "small pieces" (MY 06). Although the collection as a whole is available in several editions, the scholarly Cornell volume ...

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