The Excursion

Name: The Excursion
Author: William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

Philosophical narrative poem exploring the wanderer's encounter with humanity

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William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet who with Coleridge launched the Romantic age with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His autobiographical epic The Prelude traces the growth of the poetic mind in relation to nature.

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