Selected Poems
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A pioneering poet of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843 for his lyrical innovation.

Selected Poems contains some of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works including an extract from his magnus opus, The Prelude, alongside shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘To a Skylark’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’. Wordsworth’s poems, more often than not written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and divinity. They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was revolutionary at the time.

This edition has an introduction by Peter Harness.

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Selected Poems
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A pioneering poet of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843 for his lyrical innovation.

Selected Poems contains some of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works including an extract from his magnus opus, The Prelude, alongside shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘To a Skylark’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’. Wordsworth’s poems, more often than not written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and divinity. They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was revolutionary at the time.

This edition has an introduction by Peter Harness.

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

by William Wordsworth
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Selected Poems

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

A pioneering poet of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843 for his lyrical innovation.

Selected Poems contains some of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works including an extract from his magnus opus, The Prelude, alongside shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘To a Skylark’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’. Wordsworth’s poems, more often than not written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and divinity. They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was revolutionary at the time.

This edition has an introduction by Peter Harness.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781529011890
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date: 03/03/2020
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 513,751
Product dimensions: 3.70(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of 17, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating travelled to Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.

Table of Contents

Chronologyix
Introductionxiii
Further Readingxxix
A Note on the Textsxxxii
Old Man Travelling3
The Ruined Cottage3
A Night-Piece18
The Old Cumberland Beggar19
Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House24
Goody Blake and Harry Gill26
The Thorn30
The Idiot Boy38
Lines Written in Early Spring53
Anecdote for Fathers54
We Are Seven56
Expostulation and Reply59
The Tables Turned60
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey61
The Fountain66
The Two April Mornings68
'A slumber did my spirit seal'71
Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')71
'Strange fits of passion I have known'72
Lucy Gray73
Nutting75
'Three years she grew in sun and shower'77
The Brothers78
Hart-Leap Well92
From Home at Grasmere99
From Poems on the Naming of Places109
To Joanna109
'A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags'112
Michael114
'I travelled among unknown Men'128
To a Sky-Lark128
Alice Fell129
Beggars131
To a Butterfly ('Stay near me')133
To the Cuckoo133
'My heart leaps up when I behold'135
To H. C., Six Years Old135
'Among all lovely things my Love had been'136
To a Butterfly ('I've watched you')137
Resolution and Independence137
'Within our happy Castle there dwelt one'142
'The world is too much with us'144
'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh'145
'Dear Native Brooks your ways have I pursued'145
'Great Men have been among us'146
'It is not to be thought of that the Flood'146
'When I have borne in memory what has tamed'147
'England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean'147
Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais148
'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free'149
To Toussaint L'Ouverture149
Composed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of Landing150
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge150
London, 1802151
'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room'151
Yarrow Unvisited152
'She was a Phantom of delight'154
Ode to Duty155
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood157
'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'164
Stepping Westward164
The Solitary Reaper165
Elegiac Stanzas166
A Complaint169
Gipsies169
St Paul's170
'Surprized by joy - impatient as the Wind'171
Yew-Trees172
Composed at Cora Linn173
Yarrow Visited175
To R. B. Haydon, Esq. ('High is our calling, Friend!')178
Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars]178
Ode: Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty180
The River Duddon: Conclusion183
'The unremitting voice of nightly streams'183
Airey-Force Valley184
Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg184
'Glad sight wherever new with old'186
At Furness Abbey186
'I know an aged Man constrained to dwell'187
from The Prelude188
Book I188
Book II204
Book III218
Book IV224
Book V231
Book VI241
Book VII246
Book VIII252
Book IX259
Book X263
Book XI271
Book XII275
Book XIII278
Notes285
Index of Titles309
Index of First Lines311
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