Selected Poems (Wordsworth, William)
by Wordsworth, William (Author); Gill, Stephen (Editor/introduction)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-29
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth’s life— from Tintern Abbey,” an ode on the restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem, The Prelude. Also included are much-loved short works such as I wandered as lonely as a Cloud,” Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,” and the poignant Lucy Gray.” These poems demonstrate Wordsworth’s astonishing range, power, and inventiveness, and the sustained and captivating vision that informed his work.
Author Biography
William Wordsworth (1770-û1850) was a major English Romantic poet known for his lyric verse. He was made poet laureate of England in 1843.
Stephen Gill is professor of English literature at Oxford University, a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and a member of the Wordsworth Trust. He is the author of William Wordsworth: A Life and Wordsworth and the Victorians.
Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylan-'s Visions of Sin.
Stephen Gill is professor of English literature at Oxford University, a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and a member of the Wordsworth Trust. He is the author of William Wordsworth: A Life and Wordsworth and the Victorians.
Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylan-'s Visions of Sin.
Table of Contents
| Chronology | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Further Reading | p. xxix |
| A Note on the Texts | p. xxxii |
| Old Man Travelling | p. 3 |
| The Ruined Cottage | p. 3 |
| A Night-Piece | p. 18 |
| The Old Cumberland Beggar | p. 19 |
| Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House | p. 24 |
| Goody Blake and Harry Gill | p. 26 |
| The Thorn | p. 30 |
| The Idiot Boy | p. 38 |
| Lines Written in Early Spring | p. 53 |
| Anecdote for Fathers | p. 54 |
| We Are Seven | p. 56 |
| Expostulation and Reply | p. 59 |
| The Tables Turned | p. 60 |
| Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey | p. 61 |
| The Fountain | p. 66 |
| The Two April Mornings | p. 68 |
| 'A slumber did my spirit seal' | p. 71 |
| Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') | p. 71 |
| 'Strange fits of passion I have known' | p. 72 |
| Lucy Gray | p. 73 |
| Nutting | p. 75 |
| 'Three years she grew in sun and shower' | p. 77 |
| The Brothers | p. 78 |
| Hart-Leap Well | p. 92 |
| From Home at Grasmere | p. 99 |
| From Poems on the Naming of Places | p. 109 |
| To Joanna | p. 109 |
| 'A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags' | p. 112 |
| Michael | p. 114 |
| 'I travelled among unknown Men' | p. 128 |
| To a Sky-Lark | p. 128 |
| Alice Fell | p. 129 |
| Beggars | p. 131 |
| To a Butterfly ('Stay near me') | p. 133 |
| To the Cuckoo | p. 133 |
| 'My heart leaps up when I behold' | p. 135 |
| To H. C., Six Years Old | p. 135 |
| 'Among all lovely things my Love had been' | p. 136 |
| To a Butterfly ('I've watched you') | p. 137 |
| Resolution and Independence | p. 137 |
| 'Within our happy Castle there dwelt one' | p. 142 |
| 'The world is too much with us' | p. 144 |
| 'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh' | p. 145 |
| 'Dear Native Brooks your ways have I pursued' | p. 145 |
| 'Great Men have been among us' | p. 146 |
| 'It is not to be thought of that the Flood' | p. 146 |
| 'When I have borne in memory what has tamed' | p. 147 |
| 'England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean' | p. 147 |
| Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais | p. 148 |
| 'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free' | p. 149 |
| To Toussaint L'Ouverture | p. 149 |
| Composed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of Landing | p. 150 |
| Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | p. 150 |
| London, 1802 | p. 151 |
| 'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room' | p. 151 |
| Yarrow Unvisited | p. 152 |
| 'She was a Phantom of delight' | p. 154 |
| Ode to Duty | p. 155 |
| Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | p. 157 |
| 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' | p. 164 |
| Stepping Westward | p. 164 |
| The Solitary Reaper | p. 165 |
| Elegiac Stanzas | p. 166 |
| A Complaint | p. 169 |
| Gipsies | p. 169 |
| St Paul's | p. 170 |
| 'Surprized by joy - impatient as the Wind' | p. 171 |
| Yew-Trees | p. 172 |
| Composed at Cora Linn | p. 173 |
| Yarrow Visited | p. 175 |
| To R. B. Haydon, Esq. ('High is our calling, Friend!') | p. 178 |
| Sequel to the Foregoing [Beggars] | p. 178 |
| Ode: Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty | p. 180 |
| The River Duddon: Conclusion | p. 183 |
| 'The unremitting voice of nightly streams' | p. 183 |
| Airey-Force Valley | p. 184 |
| Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg | p. 184 |
| 'Glad sight wherever new with old' | p. 186 |
| At Furness Abbey | p. 186 |
| 'I know an aged Man constrained to dwell' | p. 187 |
| from The Prelude | p. 188 |
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| p. 278 | |
| Notes | p. 285 |
| Index of Titles | p. 309 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 311 |
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