From Boswell to Wordsworth
November 12, 2019
Here's a link to the Boswell lecture by Borges. Enjoy!
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2013/07/28/lecture-johnson-and-boswell/
And now that you've made it through Boswell, Wordsworth is a breeze! While I've listed The Prelude as our main reading, try including the following additional poems and the prose Preface to Lyrical Ballads if you have them in your edition. (Parenthetical references are to the page number in the Oxford Classics edition, except for The Prelude, as noted below.)
The Ruined Cottage (31)
We Are Seven (83)
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (131)
"Strange fits of passion I have known" (148)
Lucy Gray (149)
To Joanna (201)
"There is an Eminence,--of these our hills" (203)
"The world is too much with us" (270)
She was a Phantom of delight (292)
Ode ("There was a time") (297)
"I wandered lonely as a Cloud" (303)
The Solitary Reaper (319)
Mutability (353)
The Prelude (375) - the following references are to Book and Line numbers within The Prelude
Book 1: 169-176; 227-304; 490-501; 648-674
Book 2, 69-78; 122-144; 170-193; 208-236; 348-395
Book 3, 69-81; 106-194; 392-407
Book 4: 33-34; 68-83; 140-180; 311-345
Book 5, 198-222; 575-629
Book 6, 253-256; 261-331
Book 7, 117-120; 145-204; 593-623; 645-696
Book 8, 62-82; 689-710; 347-390
Book 9, 1-17; 40-62; 170-177; 397-414; 642-645
Book 10, 197-201; 307-566; 627-629; 722-726
Book 11, 1-41; 138-149; 195-396
Book 12, 15-51; 69-93; 126-277
Book 13, 1-84; 120-122; 149-210; 268-278; 332-350; 386-452
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (595)