Item 1 - 'Motions and Means'

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Wordsworth/Folder 23-25/Folder 25/1

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GB 275 Wordsworth/Folder 23-25/Folder 25/1

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'Motions and Means'

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  • 11 Nov. 1844 (Creation)

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(1770-1850)

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Admitted at St John's 1787, BA 1791. Credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' (1798) in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. About 1798 he started to write a large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title 'The Prelude'. Published 'Poems in two volumes' in 1807. Poet Laureate 1843-50.

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Bought from Sotheby's 10 February 1948, lot 459, 'property of H.W. Chinn, Tunbridge Wells'. Given by H.P.W. Gatty, Fellow and Librarian, February 1948.

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MS copy of the sonnet beginning 'Motions and Means'. In the hand of William Wordsworth or that of his wife. First published in 'Yarrow revisited and other poems', 1835. Written at Elton Rectory.

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First published in 'Yarrow revisited and other poems' (1835) p. 227.

Ernest De Selincourt (ed.), revised, arranged, and edited by Alan G. Hill, 'The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VII The Later Years Part IV 1840-1853' (1988) p. 624-5.

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