Manuscript drafts by William Wordsworth of his poems "Recovery" and "The Fall of the Aar." The latter has been completely crossed out and is likely a first draft and the first line is not entirely legible. The poems differ from their published versions. "Recovery" was published in his "Ecclesiastical Sketches" and "The Fall of Aar" in his "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820."
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The item is undated. The start year provided is drawn from when Wordsworth began composing his Ecclesiastical Sketches and toured the continent, and the end year provided is drawn from when these poems were first published.
Notes (object):
Original object is mounted and contains annotations not in Wordsworth's hand.
