Why Wordsworth’s Excursion deserves to be included among his finest poems

The Excursion (1814) is not Wordsworth's most famous work, yet it has recently become a renewed subject of interest for scholars. Drawing on her recently published research in Postgraduate English, Pauline Hortolland explains why this unusual poem should be returned to the centre of Wordsworth’s writing and his relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The foremost... Continue Reading →

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