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Wordsworth Variorum Archive.(archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20050622
Author:Garrett, James M.

The Wordsworth Variorum Archive, or WVA, is a digital text archive of the poetry of William Wordsworth. The WVA provides scholars, teachers, students and enthusiasts with access to Wordsworth's poems in their various published forms.

A brief examination of Wordsworth's practice makes the need for such an archive clear. Most readers are surprised to learn that the famous lines from "Tintern Abbey"--"These beauteous forms, / Through a long absence, have not been to me / As is a landscape to a blind man's eye"--did not achieve their final form until 1827, nearly three decades ...

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