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Published by The MacMillan Company, New York and London, 1920
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. lxxxx+181 pages frontispiece. Duodecimo (5 3/4" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine and cover and gilt lettering to cover. William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. In 1795 he received a legacy of £900 from Raisley Calvert and became able to pursue a career as a poet. It was also in 1795 that he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. The two poets quickly developed a close friendship. For two years from 1795, William and his sister Dorothy lived at Racedown House in Dorset a property of the Pinney family to the west of Pilsdon Pen. Condition: Previos owner's notes to front end paper and paste down, some internal pencil marginalia, corners bumped and lightly soiled else about very good.