Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this study treats Wordsworth's oeuvre, including the """"Gothic"""" juvenilia, """"The Ruined Cottage"""", """"Lyrical Ballads"""", and """"The Excursion"""" as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind """"the living and the dead"""" and to nurture """"the kind"""".
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