William Wordsworth

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...

Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 18th century and early 19th century English lyricist William Wordsworth was one of the most prominent poets of the Romantic era. His first work "Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems" was penned with Coleridge, though most of the volume is by Wordsworth, and its publication in 1798, is generally considered to mark the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. Second editions of "Lyrical Ballads"...

"The Book of Flowers" is a pocket book of poetry written by William Wordsworth, with each poem connected through the common theme of flowers. This fantastic collection also includes an introductory excerpt from "Reminiscences" (1881) by Thomas Carlyle. The poems in this collection include: "To The Daisy", "To The Same Flower", "To The Small Celandine", "To The Same Flower", "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud", "Or, Daffodils", "The Waterfall And The Eglantine",...

Born in the Lake District and having spent much of his life there, Wordsworth-together with his compatriots Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge-would become known as the Lake Poets, with much of their work being inspired by the area's landscapes and people. Within this volume, Wordsworth presents a fantastic travelers’ guide to the Lake District, which he originally wrote during a time of fiscal need. "A Guide Through the District of the...

"The Book of Nature" is a pocket book of poetry written by William Wordsworth. A common theme of romantic poetry, nature features heavily in the work of William Wordsworth. To him, it represented a living thing; a sublime teacher-god that contained all beauty and divine truth. Through the poetry contained within this collection, Wordsworth expresses his view on the natural world and its important relationship with human beings. A wonderful collection...

"The Book of Birds" is a pocket book of poetry written by William Wordsworth, with each poem connected through the common theme of birds. This fantastic collection also includes an introductory excerpt from "Reminiscences" (1881) by Thomas Carlyle. The poems in this collection include: "The Green Linnet", "To a Sky-lark, 1807", "To a Sky-lark, 1827", "To the Cuckoo", "The Sparrow's Nest", "A Wren's Nest", "Animal Tranquillity and Decay", "A Sketch",...

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year...

A beautiful pocket-sized collection featuring Wordsworth's Lucy Poems complete with an introductory excerpts from Thomas De Quincey and Thomas Carlyle. "The Lucy Poems" are a series of five poems written by Wordsworth from 1798 to 1801, most of which were first published in his famous "Lyrical Ballads". Imbued with abstract ideals of nature, beauty, love, longing and death, the poems were written during a short period when Wordsworth lived in Germany...

William Wordsworth belonged to a chosen band of poets for whom poetry was a priesthood, which is displayed by his unerring devotion to his art. He nourished his unique poetic gift by daily intimacy with Nature. It is Wordworth's peculiar achievement to reveal the impulses at work behind the outward beauty of Nature, and to manifest its sustaining influence upon the spirit of man. The 41 poems in this collection cover a range of subjects but all reflect...

William Wordsworth composed hundreds of sonnets, among which are some of his best-known poems. The sonnet form particularly suited Wordsworth, enabling the poet to encapsulate the beauties of mundane life in language of appealing directness and simplicity. This recording contains 122 poems, ranging across many decades of Wordsworth's writing career.