William Wordsworth
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote between 1798 and 1806, the period most fully represented in this selection of 39 of his most highly regarded works. Among them are poems from the revolutionary Lyrical Ballads of 1798, including the well-known "Lines Composed...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous preface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Language
English
Description
Included in this edition are: the latest text adopted by the poet; the chronological order of the poems; the date of composition and that of publication of each poem; the essays and prefaces on poetry written between 1800 and 1845; a body of notes which Wordsworth printed in his various editions; notes revealing the time, place, occasion, and circumstance out of which each poem had its origin, and much more.
