Selected Poems [Paperback]

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous 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 Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Lucy Gray', and 'Michael'. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.William Wordsworth: Selected PoemsChronology
Introduction
Further Reading
A Note on the Texts

Selected Poems

Old Man Travelling
The Ruined Cottage
A Night-Piece
The Old Cumberland Beggar
Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
The Thorn
The Idiot Boy
Lines Written in Early Spring
Anecdote for Fathers
We Are Seven
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
The Fountain
The Two April Mornings
'A slumber did my spirit seal'
Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')
'Strange fits of passion I have known'
Lucy Gray
Nutting
'Three years she grew in sun and shower'
The Brothers
Hart-Leap Well
from Home at Grasmere
from Poems on the Naming of Places
To Joanna
'A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags'
Michael
'I travelled among unknown Men'
To a Sky-Lark
Alice Fell
Beggars
To a Butterfly ('Stay near me')
To the Cuckoo
'My heart leaps up when i behold'
To H. C., Six Years Old
'Among all lovely things my Love had been'
To a Butterfly ('I've watched you')
Resolution and Independence
'Within our happy Castle there dwelt one'
'The world is too much with us'
'With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh'
'Dear Native Brooks your ways have i pursued'