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Wordsworth/Folder 23-25/Folder 24/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Wordsworth/Folder 23-25/Folder 24/1
Title
'Upon the late general fast'
Date(s)
- 1832 (Circa) (Creation)
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1p paper
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(1770-1850)
Biographical history
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, 1972, from Mrs P.M.S. Symonds, a direct descendant of Southey's brother, William.
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Publication note
William Wordsworth, 'Poetical Works' (ed. Ernest de Selincourt and H. Darbyshire), Volume IV (Oxford 1947) p. 128.