Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth

First published in 1921, this book contains a selection of poems by Wordsworth ordered chronologically.

William Wordsworth (Author), A. Hamilton Thompson (Edited by)

9781107544659, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2015

244 pages
17.8 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.24 kg

First published in 1921, as the second edition of a 1917 original, this book contains a selection of poems by Wordsworth ordered chronologically. The selection was made with the aim of showing 'as clearly as possible the spirit which animates Wordsworth's poetry, his perception of an inward presence in all Nature, communicating itself to man's apprehension and acting as a fortifying and restraining influence, at once a source of content and an impulse to right action'. An editorial introduction is also included, together with detailed notes. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Wordsworth's poetry and English Romanticism.

Preface
Principal dates in the life of Wordsworth
Introduction
Selections: Remembrance of Collins
Expostulation and reply
The tables turned
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
From Peter Bell
Lucy ('Three years she grew in sun and shower')
Selections from Michael
To Joanna
To the cuckoo
My heart leaps up when I behold
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
London, 1802
Composed after a journey across the Hambleton hills, Yorkshire
To the daisy
The green linnet
Yew-trees
Who fancied what a pretty sight
The solitary reaper
Yarrow unvisited
She was a phantom of delight
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Ode to duty
Composed by the side of Grassmere lake
With ships the sea was sprinkled
Ode. Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood
Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland
Song at the feast of Brougham castle
George and Sarah Green
Yarrow visited
Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendour and beauty
Written upon a blank leaf in 'The Complete Angler'
To the Rev. Dr Wordsworth
Sonnets from the River Duddon
Hymn for the boatmen, as they approach the rapids under the castle of Heidelberg
The source of the Danube
Composed in one of the Catholic cantons
Walton's Book of Lives
Scorn not the sonnet
Glad sight wherever new with old
The unremitting voice of nightly streams
Selections from the Prelude
Selections from the Excursion
Notes, Index to notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]