Memorials of a Tour on the Continent 1820
William Wordsworth
33 chapters · 1 h 4 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone
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In 1820 William Wordsworth, in company with his wife Mary and sister Dorothy, undertook a tour of continental Europe, visiting Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France. The journey followed the approximate route of Wordsworth's youthful walking tour in 1790, but in the opposite direction.
These poems record his memories of the tour and contrast them with his memories of the earlier journey.
(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Chapters
1 Dedication 2 min 2 Fish Women. - on Landing at Calais 1 min 3 Bruges 1 min 4 Bruges 1 min 5 After Visiting the Field of Waterloo 2 min 6 Scenery between Namur and Liege 2 min 7 Aix-la-Chapelle 1 min 8 In the Cathedral at Cologne 1 min 9 Author's Voyage down the Rhine (Thirty Years Ago) 2 min 10 In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine 2 min 11 Hymn 2 min 12 Local Recollection on the Heights near Hockheim 2 min 13 The Source of the Danube 1 min 14 The Jung-Frau - and the Rhine at Schauffhausen 2 min 15 Near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun 1 min 16 On Approaching the Staub-Bach, Lauterbrunnen 1 min 17 The Fall of the Aar - Handec 2 min 18 On the Lake of Brientz 1 min 19 Engelberg 2 min 20 Our Lady of the Snow 3 min 21 The Town of Schwytz 2 min 22 On Hearing the Ranz-des-Vaches on the Top of the Pass of St. Gothard 2 min 23 The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano 4 min 24 Fort Fuentes - at the head of the Lake of Como 2 min 25 The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Refectory of the Convent of Maria Della Grazia - Milan 2 min 26 The Eclipse of the Sun, 1821 5 min 27 The Three Cottage Girls 5 min 28 The Column Intended by Buonaparte for a Triumphal Edifice in Milan, Now Lying by the Wayside on the Semplon Pass 2 min 29 Stanzas, Composed in the Semplon Pass 3 min 30 Echo on the Gemmi 2 min 31 Sky Prospect - from the Plain of France 2 min 32 On Being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 2 min 33 After Landing - the Valley of Dover 2 min
