...dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 620 Books, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death...Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimajras dire. 611. Medusa was one of the over...

...dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras,...

...Discursive or intuitive. 138 [XIV. 160], a unicerse of death: a Miltonic phrase. Cf. PL ii. 622-4: A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil,...for evil only good Where all life dies, death lives. 148. All truth and beauty, frsm pereading love: In later versions than A Wordsworth omits the statement...

...equivalent of the hell which Milton had described (in the phrase Wordsworth here dramatically echoes) as "a Universe of death, which God by curse/ Created...evil only good/ Where all life dies, death lives" (Paradise Lost, II, 622-4). There immediately follows the first part of Wordsworth's resolution of...

...with the revelation of a region worse than Chaos, for there is here not even the possibility of good: A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil,...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Then Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydra's,...

...monstrosity, and its living death, could just as well describe chaos: O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens and shades of...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable .... (II. 620-26) Milton's synonyms for chaos are used interchangeably for...

...bands of fallen angels pass through . . . many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse . . . (Bk.2, lines 619-26) The swamp here takes its place in the...

...dark and drearie Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, % 3ɽ (l 4p ^ YH. U ^] t ` Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydras,...

...dark and dreary Vale They pass'd, and many a Region dolorous, O'er many a Frozen, many a Fiery Alp, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good. (2.618-23) The fate of this band of explorers comments ironically on the false heroics of another explorer,...

...lot, and found No rest. Through many a dark and dreary vale O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 620 Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades...curse Created evil, for evil only good; Where all Me dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable,...