Selected Poems
$25.57
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2004
Summary
A fresh selection of Wordsworth’s poetry from the poet’s biographer.
One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontaneous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’, ‘Tintern Abbey’, ‘I Wande…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140424423 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140424423 |
| Author: | William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth in the Lake District and educated at Cambridge. As a young man he was fired with enthusiasm for the French Revolution but the year he spent in France after graduating left him disillusioned with radical politics. He turned more seriously to literature and, in collaboration with his friend Coleridge, produced Lyrical Ballads (1798). His return to the Lake District in 1799 marked the beginning of his most productive period as a poet, during which he wrote his most famous long poem, The Prelude (1805).
Stephen Gill is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He holds degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and is a long-serving member of the Wordsworth Trust. He has written William Wordsworth- A Life (1989) and Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).
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