Gents Mag 1850 part 2 p.468

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1850 part 2 p.468 [con]sisted of three parts. Of these the second part alone - The Excursion - was finished and given to the world by the author. The first book of the first part of the Recluse still remains in manuscript; but the third part was only planned. The Prelude, therefore, complete as it is with regard to a brief period of the poet's life, is only a fragment, and one more example of the many which the last generation could produce of the uncertainty of human projects and of the contrast between the promise of youth and the accomplishment of manhood. Such as it is, we rejoice to welcome it, while we regret that the greeting and applause with which it has been universally hailed, can no longer soothe and strengthen the soul of the great regenerator of English poetry - William Wordsworth.

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