Which part of The Recluse was published as The Excursion?

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William Wordsworth English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, portrait by Henry Edridge, 1804; at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England.

The Recluse was intended to be a massive, three-part philosophical work, but it was never completed as planned. Only one of its three projected parts was actually written and published during William Wordsworth's lifetime. This finished portion was published in 1814 as The Excursion.12