THE ALDINE EDITION

OF THE BRITISH

POETS

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

VOL. VI

THE POETICAL WORKS OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

EDITED WITH MEMOIR BY

EDWARD DOWDEN

IN SEVEN VOLUMES

VOL. VI

LONDON

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NEW YORK: 112, FOURTH AVENUE

1893

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EDITOR'S NOTE.

FOLLOWING, as the present edition does, the last text of Wordsworth's lifetime, 1849-50, "The Excursion" is given immediately after the "Ode. Intimations of Immortality." "The Prelude" follows as a poem of posthumous publication. Had this course not been adopted, the whole of "The Excursion" with Appendices and Indexes would have been too bulky for one volume, and " sion" must have been divided between vol. vi. The Excurand vol. vii., which would have been highly undesirable. The reader, however, must bear in mind that "The Prelude" is a poem introductory to the unfinished " which "The Excursion," designed for the 'Recluse," of Second Part, was the only Part completed. The Prelude," therefore, should properly be

read before "The Excursion."

E. D.