Abstract
In his Field Notes: “The Solitary Reaper” and Others (2007), J. H. Prynne has little good to say for lines 19 and 20 in William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper,” a 32-line lyric upon which he focuses for more than 133 pages. These lines are the only ones that have detached themselves to enter the after-life of quoted usage. In The American Scene (1907), Henry James encounters a Civil War veteran’s son: “I complimented him on his exact knowledge of these old, unhappy, far-off things.” Prynne observes that the poet’s “song will outlast his own life in the reception and memory of readers still to come, as indeed it has” (87):
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