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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) · Chapter 19Expostulation and Reply
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Composed 1798.—Published 1798
This poem is a favourite among the Quakers, as I have learned on many occasions. It was composed in front of the house of Alfoxden, in the spring of 1798.A—I.F.
Included among the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection."—Ed.
Footnote A:
In his "Advertisement" to the first edition of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) Wordsworth writes,
"The lines entitled 'Expostulation and Reply', and those which follow, arose out of conversation with a friend who was somewhat unreasonably attached to modern books of Moral Philosophy."
Was the friend Sir James Mackintosh? or was it —a much more probable supposition—his friend, S. T. Coleridge?—Ed.