Note 492 — Chapter II · INDICATIONS OF A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE IN THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (continued 3)
Reading edition
See “Hope,” ll. 39–60; “Task,” iii, 721; iv, 780; iii, 301; and other passages. In the passage from “Hope” compare the line:
She spreads the morning over Eastern hills,
and Wordsworth’s
A boy I loved the sun ... for this cause that I had seen him lay His beauty on the morning hills.—“Prelude,” ii, 183.