Cornells
famed Wordsworth Collection includes the earliest known portrait of the
poet, painted by William Shuter in 1798 when Wordsworth was only 28 years
old.
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William Wordsworth and the Romantic Imagination:
A Scholar's Collection
FEBRUARY 7 - MAY 30, 2000
An exhibition curated by Paul F. Betz, A.M. '63, Ph.D.
'65
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness.
from "Resolution and Independence"
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell Univversity Library
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A unique copy of William Wordsworths Poetical Works
(1827), annotated with revisions in the authors own hand, was added
in 1999 to the librarys extensive collection of works by and about
the celebrated English poet. The five-volume set was purchased by the
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at a Sothebys auction
in London, using funds from an endowment established by M. H. Abrams,
professor emeritus of English. Shown here: Wordsworths handwritten
revisions to his poem "Michael."
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