Essential Wordsworth (Essential Poets) [Paperback]

William Wordsworth (Author)

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Publication Date: September 21, 1995 | Series: Essential Poets (Book 6)

From the introduction by Seamus Heaney:

Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed, it is not until Yeats that we encounter another poet in whom emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness, artistic self-knowledge and bardic representativeness are so truly and responsibly combined.

He is an indispensable figure in the evolution of modern, a finder and keeper of the self as subject, a theorist and apologist whose preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 remains definitive.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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1801
The Alfoxden Notebook (1): 1
The Alfoxden Notebook (1): 2
The Alfoxden Notebook (1): 3
And Now The Strength Of Britain Was Put Forth
Animal Tranquility And Decay; A Sketch
Calais, August 15, 1802
Composed By The Side Of Grasmere
Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, 1802
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Conclusion
Daffodils
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle, In A Storm
Evening On Calais Beach
Expostulation And Reply
Extempore Effusion Upon The Death Of James Hogg
For, Born In A Poor District, And Which Yet
Fragment: Redundance
French Revolution; As It Appeared To Enthusiasts At Its Commencement
Goody Blake And Harry Gill
Great Men Have Been Among Us
Infancy
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Lines Composed At Grasmere
Lines Written In Early Spring
London, 1802 (1)
London, 1802 (2)
Lucy (1)
Lucy (2)
Lucy (3)
Lucy (4)
Lucy (5)
Lucy Gray; Or, Solitude
Michael; A Pastoral Poem
A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags
Near Dover, September 1802
Nutting
October, 1803 (2)
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
A Passing Word Erewhile Did Lightly Touch
Personal Talk
The Prelude: Book 2. School-time (continued)
The Rainbow [in The Sky]
Resolution And Independence
The River Duddon: Sonnet 34. After-thought
The Ruined Cottage
The Ships
The Simplon Pass
The Small Celandine
The Solitary Reaper
Sonnet On Catherine Wordsworth
Stepping Westward
Summer Vacation
The Tables Turned
There Was A Boy (version 1)
Though Narrow Be That Old Man's Cares, And Near
Thought Of A Briton On The Subjugation Of Switzerland
To My Sister
To The Cuckoo (1)
To The Memory Of Raisley Calvert
To Toussaint L'ouverture
Travelling
The Voice Of The Derwent
The World; Sonnet
Written In Very Early Youth
Yarrow Unvisited
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Ecco (September 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088001170X
• ISBN-13: 978-0880011709
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Seamus Heaney is a good editor if nothing else (I'm not particularly fond of his poetry, despite his Nobel.). But, as Wordsworth says in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads included herein, "I have one request to make of my Reader, which is, that in judging these poems he would decide from his own feelings genuinely, and not by reflection upon what will probably be the judgment of others."-Here are all the finest poems of the first and (finest some say, though I prefer Shelley) out-and-out English Romantic Poet. There's no need to go in search of massive tomes surveying his poetry and his life (unless you are one of those unfortunate creatures known as a graduate student). All the poems that justly made him famous are right here. Recommended to all for whom, "...the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."