Wordsworth, William.

Poems By William Wordsworth.

London, The Folio Society, 1970. 13 cm x 19 cm. 270 pages with illustrations. Hardcover / Original half-leather with brown gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight fading on cloth clovering and minor wearing on leather spine. Clean inside with solid binding.

Includes the following contents:– Poems Referring to the Period of Childhood / Poems Founded on the Affections / Poems on the Naming of Places / poems of the Fancy / Poems of the Imagination / Miscellaneous Sonnets / Memorials of a Tour in Scotland 1803 / Peems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty / The River Duddon / Ecclesiastical Sonnets / Itinerary Poems 1833 / Poems of Sentiment and Reflection / Poems Never Published /Inscriptions / Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces / The Prelude, The Recluse, The Excursion etc.

″William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art.

Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. His remarkable autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’ was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth’s poetry”. (Amazon).

• Keywords: Poetry
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 43973AB

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