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“Ode to Duty”

"Ode to Duty" (composed 1805; published in Poems in Two Volumes, 1807)

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) · composed 1805; published in Poems in Two Volumes, 1807

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Documented 1839–1846

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
VI. Europe1record
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Journal April 1839

p65
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“Ode to Duty_ Wordsworth_ / Stern Daughter of the voice of God, / Oh Duty!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

1845—

Miss Barrett’s Poems.

“Miss Barrett’s Poems.”
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“Wordsworth moves us when he writes an "Ode to Duty," or "Dion," because he could also write "Ruth," and the exquisitely tender poems on Matthew, in "— whom nature for a favorite child / Had tempered so the clay, / That every hour the heart ran wild, / Yet never went astray.”

Also reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. "Miss Barrett’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 January 1845. · 4 January 1845

1846—

Miss Barrett's Poems

“Miss Barrett's Poems”
mentioned
“Wordsworth moves us when he writes an " Ode to Duty," or " Dion," because he cculd also write " Ruth," and the exquisitely tender poems on Matthew, in whom nature”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p200

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p200; page given is to the 1869 reprint.