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 APPENDIX

BLAKE AUTOGRAPH

BEING EXTRACTS FROM WORDSWORTH'S PREFACE TO THE EXCURSION AND FROM THE RECLUSE COPIED WITH THE ANNOTATIONS HERE GIVEN

It is not the Author's intention formally to announce a System. It was more animating to him to proceed on a different course & if he shall succeed in conveying to the Mind clear thoughts, lively images & strong feelings, the Reader will have no difficulty in extracting the system for himself. And in the meantime the following passage, taken from the conclusion of the first book of the Recluse may be acceptable as a Prospectus of the design of the scope of the whole Poem. [Wordsworth.]