WorkWilliam Wordsworth

Dejection: An Ode

Dejection: An Ode Inferred

InferredFuller’s words — “…resources and noble aims, should have been the bard elect to sing of Dejection, and that the pages of his prose works should be blistered by more painful records of pers…” — point to Dejection: An Ode, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

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Dialogue, containing sundry Glosses on Poetic Texts

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“Thus we cannot wonder that he, with all his vast mental resources and noble aims, should have been the bard elect to sing of Dejection, and that the pages of his prose works should be blistered by more painful records of personal and social experiences, than we find in almost any from a mind able to invoke the aid of divine philosophy, a mind touched by humble piety.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p167

Inferred Fuller’s words — “…resources and noble aims, should have been the bard elect to sing of Dejection, and that the pages of his prose works should be blistered by more painful records of pers…” — point to Dejection: An Ode, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p167; page given is to the 1869 reprint.