Wordsworth's



Poetical Works

volume 2




edited by

William Knight



1896

Table of Contents

• 1798
• 1799
• 1800
• Poems on the Naming of Places
• 1801
• 1802
• 1803

Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2: 1798

Edited by William Knight

1896

Table of Contents

• Peter Bell
• Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798
• There was a Boy
• The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice
• Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal

Peter Bell: a Tale^A

Composed 1798^B—Published 1819.

The Poem

What's in a Name?^C

Brutus will start a Spirit as soon as Cæsar!^D

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To Robert Southey, Esq., P.L., Etc., Etc.

My Dear Friend—The Tale of Peter Bell, which I now introduce to your notice, and to that of the Public, has, in its Manuscript state, nearly survived its minority:—for it first saw the light in the summer of 1798. During this long interval, pains have been taken at different times to make the production less unworthy of a favourable reception; or, rather, to fit it for filling permanently a station, however humble, in the Literature of our Country. This has, indeed, been the aim of all my endeavours in Poetry, which, you know, have been sufficiently laborious to prove that I deem the Art not lightly to be approached; and that the attainment of excellence in it, may laudably be made the principal object of intellectual pursuit by any man, who, with reasonable consideration of circumstances, has faith in his own impulses.

The Poem of Peter Bell, as the Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously and for kindred results of pleasur

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