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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780571328789 |
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Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
Publication date: | 08/09/2016 |
Series: | Faber Poetry |
Pages: | 160 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an influential English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age of English literature with the 1798 joint publication of Lyrical Ballads. He was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
Oliver Ford Davies has, over the last forty years, become one of the world’s most esteemed actors. He spent twelve years with the Royal Shakespeare Company and won the Olivier Award for Best Actor while at the National Theatre. His television work includes Kavanagh QC, Inspector Morse, David Copperfield, and Sparkling Cyanide; his films include The Mother, Johnny English, Mrs. Brown, and Atonement.
Jasper Britton took the lead in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Richard III and has also worked for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television appearances include The Bill and Peak Practice, and he has narrated several audiobooks.
Table of Contents
Chronology | ix | |
Introduction | xiii | |
Further Reading | xxix | |
A Note on the Texts | xxxii | |
Old Man Travelling | 3 | |
The Ruined Cottage | 3 | |
A Night-Piece | 18 | |
The Old Cumberland Beggar | 19 | |
Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House | 24 | |
Goody Blake and Harry Gill | 26 | |
The Thorn | 30 | |
The Idiot Boy | 38 | |
Lines Written in Early Spring | 53 | |
Anecdote for Fathers | 54 | |
We Are Seven | 56 | |
Expostulation and Reply | 59 | |
The Tables Turned | 60 | |
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey | 61 | |
The Fountain | 66 | |
The Two April Mornings | 68 | |
'A slumber did my spirit seal' | 71 | |
Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') | 71 | |
'Strange fits of passion I have known' | 72 | |
Lucy Gray | 73 | |
Nutting | 75 | |
'Three years she grew in sun and shower' | 77 | |
The Brothers | 78 | |
Hart-Leap Well | 92 | |
From Home at Grasmere | 99 | |
From Poems on the Naming of Places | 109 | |
To Joanna | 109 | |
'A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags' | 112 | |
Michael | 114 | |
'I travelled among unknown Men' | 128 | |
To a Sky-Lark | 128 | |
Alice Fell | 129 | |
Beggars | 131 | |
To a Butterfly ('Stay near me') | 133 | |
To the Cuckoo | 133 | |
'My heart leaps up when I behold' | 135 | |
To H. C., Six Years Old | 135 | |
'Among all lovely things my Love had been' | 136 | |
To a Butterfly ('I've watched you') | 137 | |
Resolution and Independence | 137 | |
'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 Calais | 148 | |
'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free' | 149 | |
To Toussaint L'Ouverture | 149 | |
Composed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of Landing | 150 | |
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | 150 | |
London, 1802 | 151 | |
'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room' | 151 | |
Yarrow Unvisited | 152 | |
'She was a Phantom of delight' | 154 | |
Ode to Duty | 155 | |
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | 157 | |
'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' | 164 | |
Stepping Westward | 164 | |
The Solitary Reaper | 165 | |
Elegiac Stanzas | 166 | |
A Complaint | 169 | |
Gipsies | 169 | |
St Paul's | 170 | |
'Surprized by joy - impatient as the Wind' | 171 | |
Yew-Trees | 172 | |
Composed at Cora Linn | 173 | |
Yarrow Visited | 175 | |
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 Beauty | 180 | |
The River Duddon: Conclusion | 183 | |
'The unremitting voice of nightly streams' | 183 | |
Airey-Force Valley | 184 | |
Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg | 184 | |
'Glad sight wherever new with old' | 186 | |
At Furness Abbey | 186 | |
'I know an aged Man constrained to dwell' | 187 | |
from The Prelude | 188 | |
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 | ||
Notes | 285 | |
Index of Titles | 309 | |
Index of First Lines | 311 |