Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
