• Frontispiece illustration to the first edition. The Swaledale night-scene. Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse is a long narrative poem by William Wordsworth, written in 1798...
  • "Though Nature could not touch his heart By lovely forms, and silent weather, And tender sounds, yet you might see At once, that Peter Bell and she Had often...
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  • The Poem of Peter Bell, as the Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of...
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  • On the other hand, the main parody is made up of allusions to previous poems by Wordsworth, and shows no acquaintance with the story of Peter Bell.
  • "Within the breast of Peter Bell These silent raptures found no place; He was a Carl as wild and rude As ever hue-and-cry pursued, As ever ran a felon's race.
  • And, instantly, upon the earth, Beneath the full moon shining bright, Close to the Ass's feet she fell; At the same moment Peter Bell Dismounts in most unhappy plight.