WorkWilliam Wordsworth

“A Complaint”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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Documented 1846

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  • undatedA ComplaintAttested

    “Soon after I had begun to read some lines of our horoscope, I found this poem in Wordsworth. A COMPLAINT. There is a change, and I am poor.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    First-person 'I had begun to read some lines... I found this poem in Wordsworth' explicitly places the book in her hands.

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe2records
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Papers on Literature and Art

p154
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“Soon after I had begun to read some lines of our horoscope, I found this poem in Wordsworth, which seemed to link into meaning many sounds that were vibrating round me. A COMPLAINT.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

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Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts

“Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts”
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“Soon after I had begun to read some lines of our horoscope, 1 found this poem in Wordsworth, which seemed to link into meaning many sounds that were vibrating round me. A COMPLAINT.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p165

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p165; page given is to the 1869 reprint.