@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000072,
 author = {Simons, Christopher E. J.},
 issue = {44},
 journal = {人文科学研究 : キリスト教と文化},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {William Wordsworth was not only a significant traveller of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but a poet whose verse fundamentally
affected how future generations would see the landscapes through which
he passed. This paper explores Wordsworth’s frequent travels outside
England, from his childhood to 1841, in relation to his poetic output. The
paper surveys the factors that shaped Wordsworth’s lifelong itinerancy
including his avoidance of a conventional career in the church, and his
desire to shape an independent life that would furnish material for
thought and writing. The paper gives a chronological overview of
Wordsworth’s major travels in continental Europe, Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland, bringing to light new connections and contrasts between different
tours. The paper relates the biographical and historical materials of his
travelling and tours to some of the poetry that originated from them, in
order to provide a spatial and temporal map for the poetic and
philosophical development of Wordsworth’s itinerant verse. The primary
purpose of the paper is to provide a concise overview of six decades of
Wordsworth’s travels, in order to identify patterns of movement, writing,
and publication that will provide a context for future biographical and
critical scholarship on the poet. Additionally, the paper argues that early
travel determined not only central aspects of Wordsworth’s poetic
philosophy, but also the choice of his career as poet, often through
negative, rather than positive, personal circumstances.},
 pages = {113--153},
 title = {To Things Unknown and Without Bound: The Travels of William Wordsworth},
 year = {2013}
}