• 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...
  • Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street;FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,PATERNOSTER-ROW.
  • Peter Bell – A Tale William Wordsworth. What's in a 'Name'? ..... Brutus will start a Spirit as soon as Caesar!
  • "There sits the Vicar and his Dame; And there my good friend, Stephen Otter; And, ere the light of evening fail, To them I must relate the Tale Of Peter Bell the Potter."
  • ďWithin 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 felonís race.
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  • "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.
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  • Although Wordsworth always regarded Peter Bell as one of his great imaginative achievements, most critics have not agreed with him.