Nutting (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Wordsworth
- First Published: 1800
- Type of Work: Narrative/pastoral
- Genres: Poetry, Pastoral, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Children, Memory, Sex or sexuality, Nature, Guilt, Rape, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Forests or forestry, Ethics, Trees, Poetics
The Poem
“Nutting” is a short autobiographical poem of fifty-six lines. It describes a youthful encounter with nature that helped to chasten William Wordsworth’s moral sense and heighten his poetic sensitivity to the life shared between himself and the outer world. In remarks dictated to Isabella Fenwick in 1843, Wordsworth said that the verses, written in Germany in 1798, started out as part of his great autobiographical poem on the growth of the poet’s mind, The Prelude (1850), but were “struck out as not being wanted there.…These verses arose out of the...
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