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by: William Wordsworth
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821
EAN: 9780192840448
ISBN: 0192840444
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: November 09, 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 505658
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.
This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.
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Rating: - Wordworth is fantastic
The book is a very compilation of Wordsworth's best works. On the negative, the book arrived with a knife slice down the side of the cover. Otherwise the book is set very nicely with good commentaries at the back on each poem. I found this book had the best background information on the text.
Rating:  - The pleasure of reading Wordsworth
Wordsworth is a beloved writer of mine. I love his passionate and direct descriptions of Nature, his reflective calm, his deep moral sense, his simplicity and beauty of language. I love the thoughtfulness of his poetry, and its music.
His lines are memorable lines and they evoke sensations sweet felt in the heart. He is a poet who brings with him a sense of both the sublime and the simple combined.
There are of course many non- memorable lines and many poems which seem at times to be ... Read More
Rating: - A Giant with flaws
Wordsworth's poem "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" is one of the master works of the English linguage. It is a poem which gives great pleasure and will greatly assist the reader in his or her own writing. Coleridge
writes in his famous literary biography that Wordsworth did not take seriously the Platonic philosophical heart of the poem. I
cannot know how accurate Coleridge's evaluation is.
I, personally, do not really like "The Prelude". ... Read More
Rating: - Great edition, well worth buying.
'We are Seven' is based on an actual encounter Wordsworth had with a child near the River Wye in 1793.
To say he idolises an imaginary idea of Nature that doesn't exist except in Disney Land is not right. The kind of Nature he writes about exists in the Lake District.
Wordsworth writes about the harsh side of Nature as much as the unambiguously positive sides of it.
This book is most recommended and readers should dispell all those cliches that are stated about ... Read More
Rating: - Wordsworth often mis-represented
Those readers of poetry who discount Wordsworth as merely a poet who "worships" Nature and holds emotion over rational thought are giving him only a shallow reading and relying on the obvious. When Wordsworth's work is read as a whole, and in context with his contemporaries and historical events, then one can begin to appreciate the depth and significance of the philosophical thought behind his poetry.
His reliance on Nature comes not from a worship of it, rather from the belief that philosophical ... Read More
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