Wordsworth: Selected Poetry (Poetry Library, Penguin) - Softcover

Wordsworth, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014058661X ISBN 13: 9780140586619

Publisher: Puffin, 1993

Synopsis

This selection of Wordsworth poetry represents Wordsworth as a poet of "man and society" and politics as well as of nature. This new edition covers the whole of Wordsworth's writing, including substantial extracts from "Lyrical Ballads" and the full extent of the earliest version of "The Prelude", as well as extracts from the extended versions of 1805 and 1850.

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About the Author

Stephen Gill is a Fellow of Lincoln College and Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford. Duncan Wu is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Review

The Affliction Of Margaret
Airey-force Valley
Alice Fell
Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been
Anecdote For Fathers
The Baker's Cart
The Blind Beggar, And Bartholomew Fair
The Brothers
Calais, August 15, 1802
Calais, August, 1802
Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old
A Complaint
Composed By The Sea-side Near Calais [august 1802]
Composed By The Side Of Grasmere
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Conclusion
Crossing The Alps
Daffodils
The Death Of Robespierre
The Discharged Soldier
Distressful Gift! This Book Receives (fr. Elegies J.w.)
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle, In A Storm
Evening On Calais Beach
Expostulation And Reply
Extempore Effusion Upon The Death Of James Hogg
The Fountain; A Conversation
Genius Of Burke!
Gipsies
Gold And Silver Fishes In A Vase
Goody Blake And Harry Gill
Great Men Have Been Among Us
The Green Linnet
I Am Not One Who Much Or Oft Delight
I Grieved For Buonaparte
I Have Been Here In The Moon-light
I Travelled Among Unknown Men
The Idiot Boy
If Nature, For A Favorite Child
The Last Of The Flock
Lines (written At A Small Distance From My House)
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Lines Composed At Grasmere
Lines Left Upon A Seat In A Yew-tree
Lines Written In Early Spring
London, 1802
Lucy (5)
Lucy Gray
Michael; A Pastoral Poem
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
A Night-piece
November 1, 1815
November, 1806
Nuns Fret Not At Their Convent's Narrow Room
Nutting
Ode To Duty
Ode. An Evening Of Extraordinary Splendor And Beauty
Ode. The Pass Of Kirkstone
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
The Old Cumberland Beggar
Old Man Travelling
On Departure Of Sir Walter Scott From Abbotsford, For Naples
Pain And Grief
Poems On Naming Of Places: A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones
Poems On The Naming Of Places: It Was An April Morning
Poems On The Naming Of Places: There Is An Eminence
Poems On The Naming Of Places: To Joanna
Poems On The Naming Of Places: To M.h.
A Poet's Epitaph
The Rains At Length Have Ceased
Resolution And Independence
The River Duddon. Conclusion
The Ruined Cottage
The Sailor's Mother
September 1, 1802 (different Version)
The September Massacres
September, 1815
She Was A Phantom Of Delight
Simon Lee
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
The Small Celandine
The Solitary Reaper
Song
Sonnet On Catherine Wordsworth
St Paul's
Stanzas Written In My Pocket-copy Of Thomson's
Stepping Westward
Strange Fits Of Passion I Have Known
The Sun Has Long Been Set
The Tables Turned
That Great Federal Day
There Was A Boy (version 2)
These Chairs They Have No Words To Utter
The Thorn
Thought Of A Briton On The Subjugation Of Switzerland
'tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love
To A Butterfly
To A Butterfly
To A Friend, Composed Near Calais
To A Skylark (2) Revised
To Hartley Coleridge; Six Years Old
To The Cuckoo
To The Daisy
To The Daisy (from Three Elegies For John Wordsworth)
To The Same Flower
To The Small Celandine
To Toussaint L'ouverture
The Two April Mornings
Upon The Sight Of A Beautiful Picture
We Are Seven
A Whirl-blast From Behind The Hill (version 2)
Who Fancied What A Pretty Sight
The World Is Too Much With Us
Written In Germany
Written In March
Yarrow Revisited
Yarrow Unvisited
Yarrow Visited
Yes! Full Surely 'twas The Echo
Yew-trees
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014058661X
• ISBN 13: 9780140586619
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336