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From Boswell to Wordsworth

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)