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Informationen zum Autor William Wordsworth (1770 -1850) was born in Cockermouth, England, and was part of the famous Lake Poets group. Wordsworth was the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. He is best-known for his collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, that he wrote and published with his friend and fellow Lake Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The seminal collection helped to set England's Romantic Era in motion. Klappentext First published in 1921, this book contains a selection of poems by Wordsworth ordered chronologically. Zusammenfassung First published in 1921! 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'. An editorial introduction is also included! together with detailed notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
