Features a contemporary poet who selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the authors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.
Features a contemporary poet who selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they e...
William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the "Lake Poets." Yet he was also one of the founders of English Romanticism, a writer whose early revolutionary fervor imbued his verse and his ideals. This pocket-sized collection includes: "I wandered lonely as a cloud" ("Daffodils"), "Ode. Intimations of Immortality," "Character of the Happy Warrior," "The Solitary Reaper," "To a Sky-Lark," "Tintern Abbey," and extracts from "The Prelude."
William Wordsworth is chiefly remembered as one of the "Lake Poets." Yet he was also one of the founders of English Romanticism, a writer whose early ...
This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of Wordsworth's works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as `I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and `She Was a Phantom of Delight'.
This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of Wordsworth's works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-lov...
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.
When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly...