In the
afternoon
I read Chaucer aloud.
William Wordsworth
]
[Variant 5:
1842.
. . . gentleness, . . . 1841. ]
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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: The following extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal
show the date of the composition of this poem.
"Sunday, 6th December 1801. A very fine beautiful sun-shiny morning.
William worked a while at Chaucer; then he set forward to walk into
Easdale. . . .
In the afternoon I read Chaucer aloud. "
"Monday, 7th. . . . William at work with Chaucer, 'The God of Love'. . . . "
"8th November . . . William worked at 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'
till he was tired. "
"Wednesday, December 9th. I read 'Palemon and Arcite', William writing
out his alterations of Chaucer's 'Cuckoo and Nightingale'. "
The question as to whether 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' was written
by Chaucer or not, may be solved either way without affecting the
literary value of Wordsworth's "modernisation" of it.
[Variant 5:
1842.
. . . gentleness, . . . 1841. ]
* * * * *
FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: The following extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal
show the date of the composition of this poem.
"Sunday, 6th December 1801. A very fine beautiful sun-shiny morning.
William worked a while at Chaucer; then he set forward to walk into
Easdale. . . .
In the afternoon I read Chaucer aloud. "
"Monday, 7th. . . . William at work with Chaucer, 'The God of Love'. . . . "
"8th November . . . William worked at 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'
till he was tired. "
"Wednesday, December 9th. I read 'Palemon and Arcite', William writing
out his alterations of Chaucer's 'Cuckoo and Nightingale'. "
The question as to whether 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' was written
by Chaucer or not, may be solved either way without affecting the
literary value of Wordsworth's "modernisation" of it.
