Wordsworth - 'Daffodils' and Other Poems

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. 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."

About the author

William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland in 1770. After Cambridge University, he lived for a time in Revolutionary France, before returning to England in 1793. In 1797 he moved to Somerset, where he and his friend Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads, a landmark in English Romanticism. In 1802 Wordsworth moved back to the Lakes with his sister and married Mary Hutchinson in the same year. He continued to write poetry, and was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

Summary

Whether wandering the hills or whiling away an hour waiting for a train, no reader can fail to be touched by the lyrical, evocative beauty of William Wordsworth’s verse contained in this anthology.

Foreword

Whether wandering the hills or whiling away an hour waiting for a train, no reader can fail to be touched by the lyrical, evocative beauty of William Wordsworth's verse contained in this anthology.

Product details

• Authors: William Wordsworth
• Publisher: O'Mara M.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2016
• EAN: 9781782437123
• ISBN: 978-1-78243-712-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 144 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 99 g
• Series: Pocket Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets