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Title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8)

Author: William Wordsworth

Editor: William Knight

Release Date: May 20, 2010 [eBook #32459]

Language: English

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WORDSWORTH, VOLUME IV (OF 8)***

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2. Text in Gothic Font other than Fraktur is enclosed by
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7. Spelling inconsistencies have been retained, a list appears
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corrections.

8. The [oe] ligature appears in the original text in the words:
Phoebus,Boeotia and manoeuvres, and has been removed from
this e-text.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Edited by

WILLIAM KNIGHT

VOL. IV

[ILLUSTRATION]

=London=
Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
New York: Macmillan & Co.
1896

CONTENTS

1806

PAGE
To the Spade of a Friend 2

Character of the Happy Warrior 7

The Horn of Egremont Castle 12

A Complaint 17

Stray Pleasures