William Wordsworth / edited by Stephen Gill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Contributor:

Gill, Stephen.

Series:

21st-century Oxford authors.

21st-century Oxford authors

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Poems--Selections.

Wordsworth, William.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Prose works--Selections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (841 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Summary:

The Wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are all included, but they are complemented by a more than usually generous selection of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as will the political prose of the Convention of Cintra. All of the material is presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how Wordsworth's changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that which he did not reveal, which will enable the reader to trace through successive published volumes the development of Wordsworth's public poetic self, while also being able to follow the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason, Wordsworth did notchoose to make public when it was written - The Prelude being the greatest and most obvious example.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chronology

A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering

FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798)

Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree

The Female Vagrant

Goody Blake and Harry Gill

Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House

Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman

Anecdote for Fathers

We Are Seven

Lines Written in Early Spring

The Thorn

The Last of the Flock

The Idiot Boy

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables Turned

Old Man Travelling

Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800 and 1802)

Appendix to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800 and 1802)

Hart-Leap Well

The Brothers

'Strange fits of passion I have known'

Song

'A slumber did my spirit seal'

The Oak and the Broom

Lucy Gray

The Idle Shepherd-Boys

Poor Susan

Lines written on a Tablet in a School

The Two April Mornings

The Fountain

Nutting

'Three years she grew in sun and shower'

The Old Cumberland Beggar

A Poet's Epitaph

Poems on the Naming of Places

Michael

OTHER POEMS 1798-1800

The Ruined Cottage [MS B]

A Night Piece

The Two-Part Prelude

Home at Grasmere

FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807)

To the Daisy ('In youth')

'She was a Phantom of delight'

The Sailor's Mother

Character of the Happy Warrior

To H.C., Six Years Old

'Among all lovely things my Love had been'

'I travelled among unknown Men'

Ode to Duty

Beggars

To a Sky-Lark

Alice Fell

Resolution and Independence

'Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room'

'Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?'

'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh'

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

'"Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con"'.

'The world is too much with us'

'It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free'

Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais

Calais, August, 1802

To a Friend, Composed near Calais

'I grieved for Buonaparte'

Calais, August 15th, 1802

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic

To Toussaint L'Ouverture

September 1st, 1802

Composed in the Valley, near Dover

September, 1802

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

Written in London, September, 1802

London, 1802

'Great Men have been among us'

'It is not to be thought of that the Flood'

'When I have borne in memory what has tamed'

October, 1803 ('One might believe')

October, 1803 ('These times touch')

'England! the time is come when thou shouldst wean'

October, 1803 ('When, looking on the present face')

To the Men of Kent

October, 1803 ('Six thousand Veterans')

Anticipation, October, 1803

Rob Roy's Grave

The Solitary Reaper

Stepping Westward

Glen-Almain

The Matron of Jedborough and Her Husband

To a Highland Girl

Address to the Sons of Burns

Yarrow Unvisited

To a Butterfly ('Stay near me')

'My heart leaps up when I behold'

Written in March

'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'

The Sparrow's Nest

Gipsies

To the Cuckoo

To a Butterfly ('I've watched you')

The Green Linnet

'By their floating Mill'

Star Gazers

Power of Music

To the Daisy ('With little here')

To the Same Flower ('Bright Flower')

A Complaint

'I am not One who much or oft delight'

'Yes! full surely 'twas the Echo'

Lines. Composed at Grasmere . . .

Elegiac Stanzas

Ode ('There was a time')

OTHER POEMS 1800-1808

'When first I journeyed hither'

'Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain ground'

Ejaculation at the Grave of Burns

To the Daisy ('Sweet Flower!').

'I only looked for pain and grief'

'Distressful gift! this Book receives'

St Paul's

The Prelude (1805)

FROM THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA (1809)

FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810)

FROM THE EXCURSION (1814)

Prospectus to The Recluse

Book One

From Book Three

From Book Four

From Book Seven

From Book Nine

FROM POEMS (1815)

From the Preface to Poems (1815)

From Essay, Supplementary to the Preface to Poems (1815)

Characteristics of a Child three Years old

Yew-Trees

Yarrow Visited

Upon the Sight of a Beautiful Picture

'Surprized by joy-impatient as the Wind'

FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816)

FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820)

Conclusion ('I thought of Thee')

Composed at Cora Linn

To the Rev. Dr. W-. (With the Sonnets to the River Duddon)

Ode. Composed Upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty

Ode. The Pass of Kirkstone

Ode.-1817

From Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes

OTHER POEMS 1815-1846

To B. R. Haydon, Esq.

November 1, 1815

Sequel to [Beggars]

Bruges ('Bruges I saw attired')

Mutability

To the Torrent at the Devil's Bridge, North Wales

'Scorn not the Sonnet'

Incident at Bruges

Yarrow Revisited

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples

'Calm is the fragrant air and loth to lose'

Airey-Force Valley

From 'Postscript' to Yarrow Revisited

Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg

Thoughts. Suggested the Day Following . . . ('Too frail to keep the lofty vow')

At Furness Abbey ('Here, where, of havoc tired')

'Glad sight wherever new with old'

Sonnet. On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway ('Is then')

'Proud were ye, Mountains, when, in times of old'

At Furness Abbey ('Well have yon Railway Labourers to THIS ground').

'I know an aged Man constrained to dwell'

Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads

Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191572692

0191572691

OCLC:

638860521