| Description |
xxiv, 582 pages maps 21 cm. |
| Series |
Riverside editions, B84 |
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Riverside editions ; B84.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 492-494). |
| Contents |
Poems. An evening walk -- Lines left upon a seat in a yew-tree -- The reverie of poor Susan -- The old Cumberland beggar -- Animal tranquillity and decay -- A night-piece -- Goody Blake and Harry Gill -- The excursion, Book I -- From The recluse -- Lines written in early spring -- We are seven -- Anecdote for fathers -- A whirl-blast from behind the hill -- Simon Lee -- Her eyes are wild -- The idiot boy -- The thorn -- Peter Bell -- The tables turned -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey -- Nutting -- Strange fits of passion have I known -- She dwelt among the untrodden ways -- Three years she grew in sun and shower -- A slumber did my spirit seal -- Lucy Gray -- The Danish boy -- The two April mornings -- The fountain -- To M.H. -- Hart-Leap Well -- The brothers -- It was an April morning -- To Joanna -- There is an eminence -- A narrow girdle of rough stones -- I travelled among unknown men -- To a young lady -- The sparrow's nest -- To a butterfly (Stay near me) -- To the cuckoo -- My heart leaps up |
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(Cont.) When, to the attractions of the busy world -- To a butterfly (I've watched you now) -- Stanzas written in my pocket-copy of Thomson's Castle of indolence -- Resolution and independence -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge -- It is a beauteous evening, calm and free -- Composed by the sea-side, near Calais -- Composed in the valley near Dover -- September, 1802, near Dover -- Written in London, September 1802 -- London, 1802 -- Composed after a journey across the Hambleton hills -- There is a little unpretending rill -- To Toussaint L'Ouverture -- On the extinction of the Venetian Republic -- It is not to be thought of that the flood -- To H.C. -- To a Highland girl -- Yarrow unvisited -- To the men of Kent -- Yew-trees -- Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne -- Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? -- With ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh -- The world is too much with us -- Personal talk -- Ode to duty -- Ode : intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood -- I wandered lonely as a cloud |
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(Cont.) She was a phantom of delight -- Stepping westward -- The solitary reaper -- Character of the happy warrior -- Power of music -- Star-Gazers -- Yes, it was the mountain echo -- Elegiac stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle -- Thought of a Briton on the subjugation of Switzerland -- The white doe of Rylstone -- Surprised by joy -- The shepherd, looking eastward, softly said -- Yarrow visited -- Laodamia -- "Weak is the will of man" -- November 1 -- September, 1815 -- Composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendour and beauty -- Sole listener, Duddon! -- After-Thought -- Mutability -- To -- (Look at the fate of summer flowers) -- To a sky-lark (Ethereal minstrel!) -- Scorn not the sonnet -- If thou indeed derive thy light from heaven -- Yarrow revisited -- Calm is the fragrant air -- Steamboats, viaducts, and railways -- Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes -- Prefaces. Advertisement to Lyrical ballads -- Preface to the second edition of Lyrical ballads -- Appendix to the preface -- Preface to The excursion. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 18th century.
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English poetry -- 19th century.
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Lake poets.
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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Lake poets. (OCoLC)fst00990869
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1899
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| Genre/Form |
English poetry.
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Prefaces.
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| Added Author |
Stillinger, Jack, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Selected poems and prefaces. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1965] (OCoLC)767565974 |
| ISBN |
0395051797 |
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9780395051795 |
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