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Wordsworth (Hardcover)
Andrew Lang William Wordsworth
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With an Introduction by Antonia Till. William Wordsworth
(1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was
much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his
youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction
of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth
century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and
women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early
poetry represents this fresh approach to his art. Wordsworth spent
most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy
and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. His remarkable
autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805, but was
not published until after his death, and it is included in this
full edition of Wordsworth's poetry.
In this series, a contemporary poet 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 editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets
in our literature. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull
would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its
majesty . . . -- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,
1802
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.
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Guide to the Lakes (Paperback)
William Wordsworth; Edited by Saeko Yoshikawa
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William Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes gives a first-hand account
of his feelings about the unique countryside that was the source of
his inspiration. He addresses concerns that are relevant today,
such as how the growing number of visitors, and the money they
might bring, would affect such a small and vulnerable landscape. It
is now understood that Wordsworth's notion of the Lake District as
'a sort of national property, in which every man has a right and
interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy',
expressed in his Guide, gave a rationale for the foundation of the
National Trust in 1895 and the establishment of the Lake District
National Park in 1951. Furthermore, the 2017 nomination document
for the Lake District as a World Heritage site quotes this phrase
in recognition of Wordsworth's contribution to the idea that
'landscape has a value, and that everyone has a right to appreciate
and enjoy it'. We can now see how Wordsworth's Guide has had a
far-reaching influence on the modern concept of legally-protected
landscape. First published in 1810 and repeatedly revised by its
author over the ensuing twenty-five years, William Wordsworth's
Guide to the Lakes has long been considered a crucial text for
scholars of Romantic-era aesthetics, ecology, travel writing, and
tourism.
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.
Originally published in 1932, this book contains a number of
extracts from the poems of Wordsworth, including large sections
from The Prelude and a number of his shorter poems. Each poem is
prefaced with notes by George Mallaby, and an index of first lines
is included at the back. This book will be of value to anyone with
an interest in Wordsworth.
First published in 1853, this is a comprehensive guide to the
British Lake District. It features contributions from William
Wordsworth and the geologist Adam Sedgwick, as well as a number of
shorter sections by local experts on subjects such as botany and
toponymy. The first part comprises detailed descriptions of the
major towns and villages of the area, providing recommended routes
and excursions for tourists. This is followed by Wordsworth's
description of the scenery of the Lake District, offering
fascinating observations on the natural formation of the landscape
and the influence of human settlement. The latter part consists of
a series of five letters on the geological structure of the area,
written by Sedgwick between 1842 and 1853. Illustrated with
detailed maps of the area, this is a key text for those interested
in the history of tourism in the Lake District and its development
in the Victorian period.
The editor has included a full critical introduction as well as notes at the bottom of each page to help those who are reading the poems for the first time.
'Listen, Stranger!' Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of
poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English
Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume
were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have
continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles
above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more.
Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just for Romanticism
but for poetry in general. This is the only edition to print both
the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with
the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important
Appendix on Poetic Diction. It offers modern readers a sense of
what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time,
and to see how it developed. Important letters are included, as
well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland.
In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge, settling
shortly after in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy.
He died at Rydal Mount in 1850, shortly before the posthumous
publication of that landmark of English Romanticism, The Prelude.
Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads is a
fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and
authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the
1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety. In
the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence,
and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work
within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and
allow readers to trace the work's transformations in response to
the pressures of the literary marketplace.
This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of
William Wordworth's poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of
1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth
study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworth's
Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the
essential texts for studying this author. Wordsworth's Poetry and
Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged,
thereby allowing readers to trace the author's evolving interests
and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual
introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated.
Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title
pages. "Criticism" collects thirty responses to Wordsworth's poetry
and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors.
Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill,
Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Karen
Swann, Michael O'Neill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others. The
volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a
Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of
Poems.
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.
It is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple
stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry,
but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the whole of
nineteeth-century culture in Britain and America. His literary
revolution was founded on three principles: introspection, nature
worship and the cult of ordinary experience. These three he blended
together in a verse which is simple in manner but profound and
deeply moving in content. In an age of revolutionary upheaval,
industrial stress and religious doubt, Wordsworth rediscovered
spiritual value in the individual's encounter with nature. In our
own age of ecological disaster and moral uncertainty, his
achievement speaks to us more urgently than ever. From the poet's
extensive output, this comprehensive selection includes everything
non-specialist readers are likely to need.
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Selected Poetry (Paperback)
William Wordsworth; Edited by Stephen Gill, Duncan Wu
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Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly
popular of all the English poets. Wordsworth's verse declares a
belief in the power of poetry to teach by appealing to the
imagination and to the `grand elementary principle of pleasure, by
which man knows, and feels, and lives, and moves'. His unique
relationship with the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, founded in the political and social ferment of 1795,
produced a revolution in literature, resulting in the joint volume,
Lyrical Ballads (1798-1805) - a landmark in the history of English
Romanticism. In this edition the poems are given in the texts in
which they first appeared, and were appreciated by Keats, Shelley,
Hazlitt and other contemporaries. This selection, chosen from the
Oxford Authors critical edition, includes all Wordsworth's finest
lyrics, and a large sample of The Prelude (1805), his extraordinary
autobiographical poem in blank verse and the first truly great
acheivement of a new era in English ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
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The Borderers (Hardcover)
William Wordsworth; Edited by Robert Osborn
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to
English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely
updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate
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Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range
of critical perspectives and wider contexts.
... must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the
weight of over-cooked Augustanisms. The Guardian They were written
chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of
conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted
to the purposes of poetic pleasure -- William Wordsworth, from the
Advertisment prefacing the original 1798 edition. 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 what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so
clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (also
reproduced here), the important thing was the emotion aroused by
the poem, and not the poem itself. 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.
Movement, deeply influenced by a love of nature. the founders of
the Romantic Movement.
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. Much of Wordsworth's work was inspired by nature, but to a
style rich in lyrical imagery he brought a deep interest in liberal
humanitarianism and a profound concern for the lives, habits and
speech of ordinary people, especially country people. 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'. Also available in the
'Pocket Poets' series: 9781782437116 Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale'
and Other Poems 9781782437109 Kipling: 'If-' and Other Poems
9781782437093 Burns: 'A Red, Red Rose' and Other Poems
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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