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Dedication to The Excursion (1814)
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Dedication to The Excursion (1814)
Original Image Dimensions 12"x8"
Source The Duncan Wu Collection
Description The Excursion was a hugely prestigious publication and was seen as its author's
principal claim to literary greatness. Unfortunately it contained a dedication to a
local Tory grandee that signalled to all who saw it that Wordsworth was no longer
the radical firebrand he had been in the 1790s and had instead gone the way of all
ageing writers desperate for the favours of the rich and powerful.