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Selected Poems

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By (author): William Wordsworth

A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry.

Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an introduction by Peter Harness.

Selected Poems brings together some of Wordsworths most acclaimed and influential works, including an extract from his magnus opus, The Prelude, alongside shorter poems such as I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, To a Skylark and Tintern Abbey. Wordsworths poems, often written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and of spirituality. They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was truly groundbreaking.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 124g
  • Dimensions: 99 x 157mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Mar 2020
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529011890

About William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth in the English Lake District the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister Dorothy whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen shortly after the deaths of his parents Wordsworth went to St Johns College Cambridge and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year The Prelude was finally published 1850.

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