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THE PRELUDE by WORDSWORTH WILLIAM
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood ...Show more
The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry | Series: Norton Critical Editions
There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850-thus freeing the latter poem from the unwarran ...Show more
The Prelude and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry
"Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the dinOf towns in cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart" William Wordsworth's verse w ...Show more
William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth, Heaney
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet Ser.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge, settling shortly after in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. He died at Rydal Mount in 1850, shortly before the posthumous publication of that landmark of English Ro ...Show more
William Wordsworth (Faber Nature Poets) by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
William Wordsworth: The Major Works by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the es ...Show more
William Wordsworth - the Major Works by William Wordsworth
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the es ...Show more
Wordsworth - Selected Poems (Crane Classics) by William Wordsworth
Category: Poetry | Series: Crane Classics Ser.
A collection of classic poems that provides an accessible introduction to William Wordsworth's poetry. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition this volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.
Wordsworth: A Life In Letters by William Wordsworth
Category: Biography Memoir
William Wordsworth is usually remembered as the quintessential Victorian Poet Laureate. This selection of letters and autobiographical fragments introduces us to Wordsworth: the rebellious schoolboy, who vandalised his family portraits, became a supporter of the French Revolution and fathered an illegit ...Show more
Wordsworth : Daffodils' and Other Poems by William Wordsworth
Category: Gift
William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the 'Lake Poets'. Yet he was also one of the founders of English Romanticism, a writer whose early revolutionary fervor imbued his verse and his ideals. Much of Wordsworth's work was inspired by nature, but to a style rich in lyrical imagery he brought ...Show more