WorkWilliam Wordsworth

The Evening Voluntaries

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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Documented 1846

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    “The Evening Voluntaries are very beautiful in manner. Not in the lucid intervals of life That come but as a curse to party strife.”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    61-line excerpt range with quoted opening lines indicates a sustained passage from the Evening Voluntaries.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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“The Evening Voluntaries are very beautiful in manner, and full of suggestions. The second is worth extracting as a forcible exhibition of one of Wordsworth's leading opinions.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p108

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p108; page given is to the 1869 reprint.