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Author Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Title Selected poems / William Wordsworth.

Publication Info. New York : Gramercy Books ; 1993.
Avenel, N.J. : Distributed by Outlet Book Company, 1993.

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  821.7 WOR    Check Shelf
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Description 256 pages ; 22 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary The selections in this volume cover all of Wordsworth's career, but focus on the poems written between 1797 and 1807, the years considered to be the peak of his creative life.
Contents I. Sonnets -- Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne -- To sleep -- "Beloved vale!" I said, "When I shall con" -- There is a little unpretending rill -- How sweet it is, when mother fancy rocks -- The world is too much with us -- On the extinction of the Venetian republic -- Calais, August 1802 -- Composed by the seaside, near Calais -- It is a beauteous evening -- To Toussaint L'Ouverture -- Composed near Calais, on the road to Ardres -- Calais, August 15, 1802 -- September 1, 1802 -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 -- Written in London, September 1802 -- London, 1802 -- Composed after a journey across the Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire -- These words were uttered in a pensive mood -- Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room -- To the men of Kent, October 1803 -- Upon the sight of a beautiful picture -- The shepherd, looking eastward, softly said -- Surprised by joy -- To B. R. Haydon, Esq. -- November 1, 1815 -- September 1815 -- Sole listener, Duddon! -- To the River Duddon -- The River Duddon, conclusion -- Bruges -- The Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci -- Mutability -- Scorn not the sonnet -- To the planet Venus, an evening star -- Desire we past illusions to recall? -- Steamboats, viaducts, and railways -- A poet! -- he hath put his heart to school
II. Lyrical ballads, odes, sketches, and pastoral poems -- Lines left upon a seat in a yew tree -- Old man traveling -- The reverie of poor Susan -- The old Cumberland beggar -- To my sister -- Goody Blake and Harry Gill -- The thorn -- A whirl-blast from behind the hill -- Anecdote for fathers -- Simon Lee, the old huntsman -- We are seven -- Lines written in early spring -- Expostulation and reply -- The tables turned -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey -- Nutting -- To a sexton -- The two April mornings -- She dwelt among the untrodden ways -- Lucy Gray -- Strange fits of passion have I known -- I traveled among unknown men -- Three years she grew -- A slumber did my spirit seal -- The brothers -- A narrow girdle of rough stones -- Michael -- There is an eminence -- Written in March -- The sparrow's nest -- Ode: Intimations of immortality -- Alice fell -- To the cuckoo -- To a butterfly ("Stay near me") -- To a butterfly ("I've watched you now") -- The green linnet -- To a skylark ("Up with me!") -- To the daisy ("In youth") -- To the daisy ("With little") -- To the same flower [the daisy] -- To the small celandine -- To the same flower [the small celandine] -- Resolution and independence -- My heart leaps up -- Yarrow unvisited -- She was a phantom of delight -- The small celandine -- Ode to duty -- The solitary reaper -- I wandered lonely as a cloud -- Character of the happy warrior -- Elegiac stanzas -- yew trees -- Characteristics of a child three years old -- Yarrow visited -- To a skylark ("Ethereal minstrel!") -- Ode, composed upon an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty -- Yarrow revisited -- Calm is the fragrant air -- Extempore effusion upon the death of James Hogg -- Prospectus to The recluse
III. From the prelude -- Book first: Introduction -- Childhood and school-time -- Book second: School-time (continued) -- Book fourteen: Conclusion.
Subject English poetry.
Wordsworth, William.
Wordsworth, William (OCoLC)fst01457504
English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
Poesia inglesa.
Literatura inglesa.
Added Title Poems. Selections
ISBN 0517093251
9780517093252
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