Wordsworth Poems

Author: Wordsworth, William

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 30 March 1995 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library POCKET POETS' series.

In the long history of English literature William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the writer who achieved the most dramatic transformations of the poetic scene almost singlehanded. A leading figure among the Romantic generation which included Coleridge and Scott, he created out of his personal communion with nature a new poetic which had a profound moral and spiritual influence on the entire nineteenth century. The present selection includes all his famous lyrics and substantial extracts from narrative poems including The Prelude.