William Wordsworth George Mallaby. Not as I since have loved him, as a pledge And surety of our earthly life, a light Which we behold and feel we are alive; Nor for his bounty to so many worlds— But for this cause, that I had seen him ...
and that those who have appropriated him as a moral guide have not only misjudged the poet but have created an idolatrous image of Wordsworth the Sage , diverting attention from the truth , which is that ' Wordsworth's poetry is great ...
1793) Wordsworth was provoked to write his Letter by the wellpublicised defection from the revolutionary cause of the liberal bishop Richard Watson. In a piece chiefly remarkable for its poverty of argument and its ostentation of ...
The carnival of St Bartholomew Fair, on the other hand, summarizing the disorganized and disenfranchized volatilities of the modern capital, epitomized for Wordsworth the anarchic energies of sansculottism.
knowledge of Thomson , if only from Knox , would have been comprehensive by the time he left Hawkshead . ... And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound ; His larum - bell from village - tow'r to tow'r Swing on th'astounded ear its ...
An invaluable tool for students of this major writer and of the Romantic period generally, this book offers a rapid means of access to factual information for any type of study making use of either the dates or relative order of Wordsworth ...
Here, collected in this volume, are Wordsworth’s finest works, some of the most beautiful poems ever written: from the famous lyrical ballads, including “The Tables Turned” and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” to ...
Collects forty-six poems and extracts of poems by William Wordsworth, with a biographical introduction and a chronology
This 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'.
Wordsworth: Selected Poetry
Wordsworth: Lectures and Essays
The book includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks retained by the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, and, among its numerous discoveries, presents the first annotated reading text of The White Doe of Rylstone (1808) with its important ...
In this masterful work, the first biography to fully examine Wordsworth's entire life, critically acclaimed biographer Juliet Barker draws on unpublished sources to present a new picture of him as both public icon and private family man.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel.
Here, in his own words and those of his closest friends and family, is William Wordsworth. From his childhood to his death in 1850, this portrait, taken from letters and...
Wordsworth: Poetry & Prose
Wordsworth: Play and Politics : a Study of Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1800