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Wordsworth: A Life Mar 10, 2021

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Too often dismissed as an author of homely verse, Wordsworth was actually a radical and brilliant man, his life a fascinating blend of achievement and tragedy.

This striking portrait, taken from letters and autobiographical fragments carefully selected by Juliet Barker, illuminates Wordworth’s life from his childhood to his death in 1850. It reveals the rebellious schoolboy who became a supporter of the French Revolution, the radical young poet who rose to be a revered patriarch, and the intensely private man who loved and cared deeply for his family.

Praise for Wordsworth: A Life:

‘Works surprisingly well … cleverly combining, as Barker has done here, his own letters with those of his family and with other documents, including extracts from diaries and journals’ - Adam Sisman, Literary Review

‘Reveals the character of the romantic poet through his own voluminous and expressive correspondence’ - History Today

‘Barker’s judicious selection shows us Wordsworth the writer in a way not possible in a biography that seeks to explain the life as well. There is a greatness in Wordsworth’s very doggedness [and] Barker allows us to hear the man himself, greatness and all’ - Kate Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph

‘Intense, shrewd … [gives] the general impression of Wordsworth as a recognisably decent, kind and likeable person’ – Andrew Motion, Financial Times

Juliet Barker is an Oxford graduate, historian and writer who was born – and still lives – in Yorkshire. She has written biographies of Wordsworth and the Brontës, and was curator and librarian of the Brontë Parsonage Museum for several years.

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Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 11) Sep 13, 2012

by William Wordsworth

( 61 )

$1.99

William Wordsworth helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, creating a diverse oeuvre of works that have influenced the course of poetry for over two centuries. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Wordsworth's complete works, with beautiful illustrations, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals and even more bonus material. (Version 3)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wordsworth's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry collections and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your Kindle a taste of the original texts
* All versions of the famous ‘Lyrical Ballads’, including all of Coleridge’s contributions
* Excellent formatting of over 950 poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Features all three versions of 'The Prelude' - explore Wordsworth's masterpiece in comprehensive detail
* The complete prose works, will fully working contents tables
* Includes Dorothy Wordsworth's famous travel writing book - spend hours exploring Wordsworth’s adventures with his sister and Coleridge
* Features F. W. H. Myers’ famous and detailed biography - explore Wordsworth's literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with Dorothy Wordsworth's journals - discover what led to the creating of English literature's most famous poetry collaboration, Lyrical Ballads

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CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections and Major Works
POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS
POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES
THE EXCURSION
LAODAMIA
THE PRELUDE

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Prose Works
LIST OF PROSE WORKS

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Works
RECOLLECTIONS OF A TOUR MADE IN SCOTLAND A.D. 1803
THE ALFOXDEN JOURNAL, 1798
THE GRASMERE JOURNAL, 1800-1803

The Biography
WORDSWORTH by F. W. H. Myers

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A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England: With a Description of the Scenery, &c., for the Use of Tourists and Residents Feb 12, 2019

by William Wordsworth

( 10 )

$8.95

This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we believe they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

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The Prelude Dec 11, 2020

by William Wordsworth

( 9 )

$6.49

“The Prelude” is William Wordsworth’s epic reflection on his lifetime journey as an artist and is widely considered to be one of his most significant works. First published in 1850 after the poet’s death, Wordsworth began working on the blank verse poem in 1798 and continued modifying and expanding it for the rest of his life. Two earlier versions of the poem have been found and published, showing the evolution of this monumental work. A first version, called the “1799 Prelude”, is the poem in its earliest and shortest stage. A second version, the “1805 Prelude”, is much longer and captures Wordsworth’s thoughts on art and nature at the height of his early career. The final version, published here, is the most polished and mature. Beginning with Wordsworth’s childhood in the Lake District, continuing through his years spent in France, and concluding with his thoughts of the relationship between an artist’s imagination and nature, the epic poem is philosophical, reflective, and deeply personal. One of the Romantic period’s greatest works, “The Prelude” is a thought-provoking and inspiring epic on what it means to be an artist in an increasingly busy, modern world.

Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth (Classics To Go) Jan 13, 2021

by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was modest, but it became and remains a landmark, changing the course of English literature and poetry.

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The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth (with an Introduction by John Morley) Jun 1, 2018

by William Wordsworth, John Morley

( 48 )

$7.49

Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 18th century and early 19th century English lyricist William Wordsworth was one of the most prominent poets of the Romantic era. His first work “Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems” was penned with Coleridge, though most of the volume is by Wordsworth, and its publication in 1798, is generally considered to mark the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. Second editions of “Lyrical Ballads” were released in 1800 and 1802. The entirety of the “Lyrical Ballads” are collected together here in this volume along with his 1807 publication “Poems, in Two Volumes” and numerous other miscellaneous poems. Wordsworth lines evoke the beauty of both nature and the commonplace everyday world. A description of Wordsworth’s work may best be found in his own famous definition of poetry: “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”. This edition collects together nearly the entirety of Wordsworth’s non-narrative lyrical work in a truly representative volume with an introduction by John Morley.

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Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry) May 9, 2012

by William Wordsworth

( 6 )

$1.68

Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote between 1798 and 1806, the period most fully represented in this selection of 39 of his most highly regarded works.
Among them are poems from the revolutionary Lyrical Ballads of 1798, including the well-known "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby"; the famous "Lucy" series of 1799; the political and social commentaries of 1802; the moving "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; and the great "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" — all reprinted from an authoritative edition.

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The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) (Penguin Classics) Sep 30, 2004

by William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth

( 47 )

$14.49

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision.

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Lyrical Ballads: With a Few Other Poems (Penguin Classics) Aug 31, 2006

by Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth

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Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' and the melancholic 'The Nightingale'. Wordsworth's 'We are Seven' depicts a child's naïve optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' and 'Simon Lee' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and 'Tintern Abbey' explores the healing powers of nature.

Published as part of the Penguin Poetry First Editions series in which the greatest collections of poetry in English will be published in their original form. All texts have been completely reset and some minor changes made to punctuation.

Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth (Penguin Classics) Apr 26, 2007

by Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Colette Clark

( 33 )

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A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving future readers not only the chance to enjoy her fresh and sensitive delight in the beauties that surrounded her at Grasmere but also a rare opportunity to observe 'the progress of a poet's mind'. Colette Clark's skilful and perceptive arrangement of Dorothy's entries alongside William's poems throws a unique light on his creative process, and shows how the interdependence of brother and sister was a vital part in the writing of many of his great poems. By reading these poems in relation to the Journal it is possible to trace the processes by which they were committed to paper and so achieve a fuller understanding of them. A writer in her own right, Dorothy kept her Journal sparse in personal and emotional detail. Yet there is, nevertheless, a deep emotional undercurrent running beneath the surface which only falters when William marries Mary Hutchinson. Never again was Dorothy to achieve the freedom, spontaneity and the limpidly beautiful prose with which she infused and irradiated the Grasmere Journals.

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Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Jul 29, 2004

by William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill

( 152 )

$7.99

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Tintern Abbey', 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Lucy Gray', and 'Michael'.
Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.

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Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson Nov 20, 2019

by William Wordsworth, Baron Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Pelham Edgar

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"Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson" by William Wordsworth, Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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