Books by William Wordsworth

ESNTL WORDSWORTH (Essential Poets)

by William Wordsworth

From the introduction by Seamus Heaney:
Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed, it is not until Yeats that we encounter another poet in whom emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness, artistic self-knowledge and bardic representativeness are so truly and responsibly combined.
He is an indispensable figure in the evolution of modern, a finder and keeper of the self as subject, a theorist and apologist whose preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 remains definitive.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

The first selected poems of a major poet who "wrote with more heart than any other North American poet of the twentieth century" (Rodney Jones, Parnassus)

More than any other poet of his generation, James Wright spoke to the great sadness and hope that are inextricable from the iconography of America: its rail yards, rivers, cities, and once vast natural beauty. Speaking in the unique lyrical voice that he called his "Ohioan," Wright created poems of immense sympathy for sociey's alienated and outcast figures and also of ardent wonder at the restorative power of nature.

Selected Poems fills a significant gap in Wright's bibliography: that of an accessible, carefully chosen collection to satisfy both longtime readers and those just discovering his work. Edited and with an introduction by Wright's widow, Anne, and his close friend the poet Robert Bly, who also wrote an introduction, Selected Poems is a personal, deeply considered collection of work with pieces chosen from all of Wright's books. It is an overdue--and timely--new view of a poet whose life and work encompassed the extremes of American life.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

tr Robin Fulton

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world. This edition also includes a special PS section with insights, interviews, and more—including a short piece by Nikki Giovanni entitled "Remembering Gwen."

By 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing across the United States, and more and more African American writers were increasingly outspoken in attacking American racism and insisting on full political, economic, and social equality for all. In that memorable year of the March on Washington, Harper & Row released Brooks’s Selected Poems, which incorporated poems from her first three collections, as well as a selection of new poems. This edition of Selected Poems includes A Street in Bronzeville, Brooks's first published volume of poetry for which she became nationally known and which led to successive Guggenheim fellowships; Annie Allen, published one year before she became the first African American author to win the Pulitzer Prize in any category; and The Bean Eaters, her fifth publication which expanded her focus from studies of the lives of mainly poor urban black Americans to the heroism of early civil rights workers and events of particular outrage—including the 1955 Emmett Till lynching and the 1957 school desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

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.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic "Auld Lang Syne," the romantic "A Red, Red Rose," and the patriotic "Scots What Hae." As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range—from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street―these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry."

That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworth’s life—from “Tintern Abbey,” an ode on the restorative powers of nature written during his intense friendship with Coleridge, to excerpts from his epic autobiographical poem, The Prelude. Also included are much-loved short works such as “I wandered as lonely as a Cloud,” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,” and the poignant “Lucy Gray.” These poems demonstrate Wordsworth’s astonishing range, power, and inventiveness, and the sustained and captivating vision that informed his work.

The inaugural volume in a new program of selected poetry especially commissioned for Penguin Classics Includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading, explanatory notes, and an index of titles and first lines In his introduction, Wordswort biographer Stephen Gill examines the personal and political events that shaped the poet's career and traces the major themes that run through his work

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O’Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his arrival in New York in 1951 he evolved a new kind of urban poetry that brilliantly captures the heady excitements of a golden period in the city’s artistic life. O’Hara’s style exudes an insistent, seductive glamour; his mercurial poems, at once open-ended and startlingly immediate, radiate an insouciant confidence that has lost none of its freshness over the decades. O’Hara was at the heart of a vibrant artistic circle that embraced fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, as well as experimental painters such as Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, and Jasper Johns. Their achievements are movingly celebrated in many of his poems, while at the same time he paid loving tribute to popular idols such as James Dean and Lana Turner:

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

This generous new selection by Mark Ford reflects all the phases and varied achievements of O’Hara’s tragically foreshortened career, including his drama, and is followed by an appendix of key prose texts such as “Personism,” in which O’Hara succinctly summed up his overall approach to poetry: “You just go on your nerve.”

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Poet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological, philosophical, and scientific issues, Aiken remains a unique influence upon modern writers and critics today. In his lifetime, Aiken received many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1930 and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1954. He served as the Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress from 1950-1952.

Selected Poems contains Aiken's own choice of the best and most representative of his poems, spanning more than forty years of his work. Harold Bloom has contributed a new Foreword to reintroduce Aiken to a new generation of readers. The inclusion of several pivotal poems from previous editions broadens the scope of the work to represent Aiken's legacy.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature—“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “Ash Wednesday”—as well as many other fine selections from Eliot’s early work.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

A beautiful new edition—the first in nearly twenty years—of the work of Wallace Stevens, a founding father of contemporary American poetry, with a dazzling range of work that is at once emotional and intellectual. As John N. Serio reminds us in his elegant introduction, Stevens has written more persuasively than any other poet about the significance of poetry itself in everyday life: “The imagination—frequently synonymous with the act of the mind, or poetry, for Stevens—is what gives life its savor, its sanction, its sacred quality.”

This rich and thorough selection—published in the 130th anniversary year of Stevens’s birth—carries us from the explosion of Harmonium in 1923 to the maturity of The Auroras of Autumn in 1950 and the magisterial Collected Poems published by Knopf in 1954. To be drawn in once more by “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” “Sunday Morning,” “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” to name only a few, is to experience again the mystery of a poet who calls us to a higher music and to a deeper understanding of our vast and inarticulate interior world.

This essential volume for all readers of poetry reminds us of Stevens’s nearly unparalleled contribution to the art form and his unending ability to puzzle, fascinate, and delight us.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

A sampling from the oeuvre of one of the greatest living poets of the English language

Geoffrey Hill’s poetry comprises one of the most uncompromising and visionary bodies of work written over the last fifty years. Imbued with the weight of history, morality, and language, his work reveals a deeply religious sensibility, a towering intellect, and an emotional complexity that are unrivaled in contemporary letters. Now, for the first time ever, readers can observe in one volume how Hill’s style took shape over time. This generous selection spans his career, beginning with poems from Hill’s astonishing debut, For the Unfallen, and following through to his stylistically distinct and critically acclaimed work Without Title. Including some of the poet’s strongest, most sensitive, and most brilliant pieces, this collection will reaffirm Hill’s reputation as “England’s best hope for the Nobel Prize.”

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight and emotion, and its exquisite music. Yet, unlike many of his peers, Ungaretti has never been adequately presented to English readers. This large bilingual selection, translated with great sensitivity and fidelity by Andrew Frisardi, captures Ungaretti in all of his phases: from his early poems, written in the trenches of northern Italy during World War I, to the finely crafted erotic and religious poetry of his second period, to the visceral, elegiac poetry of the years following the death of his son and the occupation of Rome during World War II, to the love poems of the poet's old age.
Frisardi's in-depth introduction details the world in which Ungaretti's work took shape and exerted its influence. In addition to the poet's own annotations, an autobiographical afterword, "Ungaretti on Ungaretti," further illuminates the poet's life and art. Here is a compelling, rewarding, and comprehensive version of the work of one of the greatest modern European poets.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street―these have been the qualities of Robert Pinsky's work since his first book, Sadness and Happiness (1975), celebrated for setting a new direction in American poetry. At that time, responding to a question about that book, Pinsky said: "I would like to write a poetry which could contain every kind of thing, while keeping all the excitement of poetry."

That ambition was realized in a new way with each of his books, including the book-length personal monologue An Explanation of America; the transformed autobiography of History of My Heart; the bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante; and, most recently, the savage, inventive Gulf Music. That variety and renewal are represented in this brilliantly chosen volume.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Drawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Listen to what they did.
Don't listen to what they said.
What was written in blood
Has been set up in lead.
―from "Blood and Lead"

The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political poems that launched him into fame to the intimate illuminations of love―and loss of love―in his later work, Fenton's poetry has always been marked by formal daring, wit, and an abiding empathy for the victims of war and political oppression. With selections from all of his published work since The Memory of War, the entire text of his libretto The Love Bomb, and new, previously uncollected poems, Selected Poems is an imaginative and formal tour de force.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work.

Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his later major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem.

Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor.

Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn's dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Francisco―the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equipped―by temperament, circumstance, or poetic gift―to engage the subjects of eros and thanatos than Thom Gunn. This new Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by the poet August Kleinzahler, supplants the 1979 Selected, presenting more of the later work and providing a fuller retrospective account of the breadth and magnitude of Gunn's extraordinary achievement.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Considered by Victorians as the finest contemporary poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) gained much critical favor for his mastery of poetic technique, high-mindedness, and superb natural description. This volume contains a representative selection of his best works, including the famous long narrative poem "Enoch Arden," as well as a number of important lyrics, monologues, ballads, and other typical pieces. Among these are "The Lady of Shalott," "The Beggar Maid," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "Break, break, break," "Flower in the Crannied Wall," and "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington." Also here are carefully chosen, uncut excerpts from three longer works: The Princess, "Maud," and "The Brook." With this inexpensive volume at their fingertips, students and lovers of poetry can enjoy a substantial sampling of Tennyson's still-admired, widely quoted verse.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
Generally considered among the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson has been read, studied, and admired by generations of literature students and poetry lovers. This modestly priced edition presents over 100 of her best-known and most-loved poems, reprinted from authoritative early editions. Unflinchingly honest, psychologically penetrating, and technically adventurous, the poems include such favorites as "The Chariot," "I taste a liquor never brewed," "The Snake," "I'm nobody, who are you?" "A Book," "There's a certain slant of light," "Hope," and many more.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets—now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei

One of the most influential poets in Chinese history, Ai Qing is mostly unknown to American readers, but his work has shaped the nature of poetry in China for decades. Born between the fall of imperial Manchurian rule and the establishment of the Communist People’s Republic, Ai Qing was at one time an intimate of Mao Zedong. He would eventually fall out with the leader and be sentenced to hard labor during the Cultural Revolution, when he was exiled to the remote part of the country known as “Little Siberia” with his family, including his son, Ai Weiwei.

In his work, Ai Qing tells the story of a China convulsing with change, leaving behind a legacy of feudalism and imperialism but uncertain about what the future will hold. Breaking with traditional forms of Chinese poetry, Ai Qing innovatively adapted free verse, writing with a simple sincerity in clear lines that could be understood by everyday readers. Selected Poems is an extraordinary collection that traces the powerful inner life of this influential poet who crafted poems of protest, who longed for a newer, happier age, and who wrote with a profound lyricism that reaches deep into the heart of the reader.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Denise Levertov's Selected Poems delivers in a single accessible volume "one of the essential poets of our time" (Poetry Flash). Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry―the work of a poet who, as Kenneth Rexroth put it, "more than anyone, led the redirection of American poetry...to the mainstream of world literature."

Described by Publishers Weekly as "at once as intimate as Creeley and as visionary as Duncan," Levertov was lauded as "one of the indispensable poets of our language, one of those few writers to whom it is necessary to pay attention" by The Malahat Review. No poet is more overdue for a single accessible volume; no career could be better to have within easy reach.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Acclaiming the late Eugenio Montale (1897-1981) as “one of the most important poets of the contemporary West,” the Swedish Academy awarded him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. This selection, introduced by Glauco Cambon, presents sixty-nine poems chosen from Montale’s first three books––Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones), Le occasioni (The Occasions), and La bufera e altro (The Storm and Other Things)––as rendered by sixteen translators, many of them distinguished poets in their own right.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Richard Tillinghast, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, first came to Kinvara, County Galway, for a year in 1990 and has long since been a distinctive presence on the Irish literary scene. He now lives in South Tipperary. Introduced by poet and critic Dennis O'Driscoll, Selected Poems is Tillinghast's tenth book of poems and gathers the poet's own choice of some forty years of his work. "Tillinghast's poems range confidently among different cultures. He has a sense of history as a living force. His experiments in meter, rhyme, and free verse are important. He is a wonderfully gifted poet, one of the few. -Louis Simpson

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle. . . . Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."—Tony Hoagland
of all things standing furthest
from what is real, stand these trees
shaking with dispensable joy . . .
Mary Ruefle is the winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award and has authored ten collections of poetry; The Most of It, a book of prose; and A Little White Shadow, a collection of erasures. She teaches at Vermont College.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

Poetry. A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master, SELECTED POEMS gathers together the finest work from her distinguished and inimitable poetic career, showcasing the arc of her development as one of the most brilliant, expert and hilarious practitioners of the art. Anyone who wishes for poetry to be both richly challenging and thoroughly entertaining, need look no further than this monolithic retrospective.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

A collection to introduce English readers to the wonders of Lorca's poetry This selection has been the introduction for generations of American readers to the mesmerizing poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1937). Lorca is admired the world over for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. Most of all, Lorca's poems are admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences ― Spanish folk traditions of his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel ― stream throughout Lorca's work.

Selected Poems

by Mary Ruefle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, James Wright, Anne Wright, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Robert Burns, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Eugenio Montale, Olav Hauge, William Wordsworth, alfred-lord-tennyson, Conrad Aiken, Geoffrey Hill, Frank O'Hara, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Thom Gunn, Ai Qing, Denise Levertov, Paul Lacey, Glauco Cambon, Richard Tillinghast

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."―Randall Jarrell
The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published.

The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)--A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)

by 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 that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision.

The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)

by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.
This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.

Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1802 (Oxford World's Classics)

by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fiona Stafford

'Listen, Stranger!'

Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. Within this initially unassuming, anonymous volume were many of the poems that came to define their age and which have continued to delight readers ever since, including 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', the 'Lucy' poems, 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey', 'A Slumber did my Spirit seal' and many more. Wordsworth's famous Preface is a manifesto not just for Romanticism but for poetry in general.

This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with the fullest version of the Preface and Wordsworth's important Appendix on Poetic Diction. It offers modern readers a sense of what it was like to encounter Lyrical Ballads for the first time, and to see how it developed. Important letters are included, as well as a wide-ranging introduction and generous notes.

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth (Modern Library Classics)

by William Wordsworth

Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Revisited.” Wordsworth’s poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes, “[Wordsworth’s poetry] is great because of the extraordinary power with which [he] feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties.”

Selected Poems and Prefaces

by William Wordsworth

Selected Poems And Prefaces (Riverside Editions)

Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American poets of all time. It has been said that certain of his poems — the long narratives Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha most notably — were once read in every literate home in America. A former teacher who fulfilled his dream to make a living as a poet, Longfellow taught at Bowdoin and Harvard, was eventually honored for his poetry with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, and is one of the few Americans to have a monument dedicated to his memory in Westminster Abbey. This choice collection of his works, which reflects his mastery of a rich variety of poetic forms and meters, includes one of his best narrative poems, The Courtship of Miles Standish. Here, too, are such famous poems as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Children's Hour," "Paul Revere's Ride," and other poems on subjects ranging from lost youth and Giotto's Tower to slavery and the building of a ship. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Paul Revere's Ride."

Favorite Poems (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth

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 a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby"; the famous "Lucy" series of 1799; the political and social commentaries of 1802; the moving "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; and the great "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" — all reprinted from an authoritative edition.

Lyrical Ballads (Routledge Classics)

by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classics edition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original contexts as they appeared to Coleridge’s and Wordsworth’s contemporaries, and includes some of their most famous poems, including Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.

English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

by William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron

Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experience, as well as a preoccupation with such theme as nature, death, and the supernatural.
This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest poets: William Blake (24 poems, including "The Tyger" and "Auguries of Innocence"), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems, including "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan"), Lord Byron (16 poems, including "The Prisoner of Chillon" and selections from Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "Adonis"), John Keats (22 poems, including all the great odes, "Isabella," and "The Eve of St. Agnes").
For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry, students, and teachers alike.

Cat Poetry

by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats

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Dog Poetry

by Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth

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The Book of Birds: Wordsworth's Poetry on Birds

by William Wordsworth

This beautiful pocket-sized volume is a compilation of William Wordsworth’s poetry on birds. The collection includes lyrical, melancholic poems alongside whimsical pieces that will make readers’ heart’s soar.
With themes of freedom, hope and love in The Book of Birds Wordsworth uses darker imagery to express his innermost thoughts and views of the world through the beautiful imagery of birds. This carefully curated book collates some of the poet’s most inspiring work as well as a few of his seminal pieces.
This collection includes fantastic poems such as: - The Green Linnet - To a Sky-lark, 1807 - To the Cuckoo - The Sparrow’s Nest - A Wren’s Nest - Animal Tranquillity and Decay - The Contrast – The Parrot and the Wren

Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books Ragged Hand, Wordsworth’s Poetry on Birds is now in a new compact, pocket-sized edition. This collection is completed by an introductory excerpt from Reminiscences, 1881, by Thomas Carlyle, and would make the perfect gift for lovers of birds and collectors of Wordsworth’s poetry.

The Prelude: Newly Edited from the Manuscripts and Fully Illustrated in Color

by William Wordsworth

“An outsize, gorgeous book, replete with paintings and drawings―landscapes, houses, portraits―contemporaneous with the poem. At last we have a worthy visual counterpart to one of the timeless monuments of English verse.”―The Wall Street Journal

The Prelude, William Wordsworth’s masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, the poem receives the treatment its readers deserve.

The poem charts the development of the author’s mind, from childhood to Cambridge, London, the Alps, and France, touching on subjects ranging from leisure to literature, nature to imagination, and everything in between. A meditation on the self, this work still stands as a masterpiece of English literature, and is here complemented and enhanced by 200 contemporary color plates that both illuminate and elucidate the text.

Scrupulously selected and edited from the definitive manuscripts in existence, the marginal notes and glosses provide an extra touch that makes this a truly unforgettable reading experience for anyone who loves poetry, nature, and memoir.

The Prelude: Newly Edited from the Manuscripts and Fully Illustrated in Color

by William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, it finally receives the treatment it deserves.


About the Author


William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major 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 semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge." Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

The Romantic Poets (Word Cloud Classics)

by William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron

Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets.

Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Blake—are represented in this handsome Word Cloud Classics volume, The Romantic Poets. One of the largest and most influential artistic movements in history, Romanticism valued intuition and pastoralism, and its themes are well represented in the verse of its stars.

THE WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

by William Wordsworth

With an Introduction by Antonia Till.
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.

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Read Me a Poem: Classic Poetry for Modern Children)

by William Wordsworth

This spring, children will look at daffodils in a whole new way, thanks to this joyful, vibrant picture book! Lonely l ittle Robot doesn't have much to be happy about, working all day in the factory. One day, while sadly walking by himself, he follows a bird over a hill, and discovers a field of daffodils. After dancing with them, his spirit is filled with joy. Children will observe the contrast between the dreary, metallic robot world, and the lively, colorful world of the daffodils, and see how Robot changes through his interaction with nature. They will cheer little Robot for for sharing his uplifting observations of nature with his fellow robots, bringing happiness to the once dismal factory.

The Lake Poets: An Anthology

by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey

Introduced by James Rebanks, The Lake Poets is a beautiful anthology which showcases some of the best writing from ‘The Lake Poets’ and celebrates the isolated beauty of the English Lakes.

‘The Lake Poets’ were a group of English Romantic writers who lived in the Lake District in the first half of the nineteenth century. Inspired by the spectacular pastoral landscapes of the region, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Hartley Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey are best remembered for their incredible depictions of the English fells, lakes, and coastlines, which continue to inspire visitors from around the world. Here, through their selected writings, we are reminded of the lasting influence that this exquisite place has on this famous group of writers.

Romantic Poets (Chiltern Classic)

by William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Lord George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World’s finest literature.
Your favorite classics in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf.
The Literary World of the nineteenth century was lit up by six of England's Greatest Poets. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Blake were in the vanguard of the early Romantic movement that broke from the past, emphasizing the individual and personal, embracing imagination over reason. Romanticism's second wave saw Byron, Shelley and Keats come to the fore, rebels who breathed new life into the movement which spawned some of the best poetry in English Literature.

Home at Grasmere: The Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and the Poems of William Wordsworth (Penguin Classics)

by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth

The sister of the poet records the daily account of their life which becomes also a reference to the poems of Wordsworth and relates these poems to specific entries

William Wordsworth - The Major Works: including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)

by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770 1850) has long been one of the best known and best loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.

This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800 (Broadview Editions)

by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads is a fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety.
In the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence, and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and allow readers to trace the work’s transformations in response to the pressures of the literary marketplace.

The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

by William Wordsworth

This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in all three of its forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of The Prelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poets death in 1850. In addition, the editors include the two-part version of the poem, composed in 1798-99. Each of these poems possesses distinctive qualities and values; to read them together provides an incomparable chance to observe a great poet composing and re-composing, throughout a long life, his major work. There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850―thus freeing the latter poem from the unwarranted alterations made by Wordsworth's literary executors. The editors also provide a text of MS. JJ (Wordsworth's earliest drafts for parts of The Prelude) as well as transcriptions of other important passages in manuscript which Wordsworth failed to include in any fair copy of his poem. The texts are fully annotated, and the notes for all three versions of The Prelude are arranged so that each version may be read independently. The editors provide a concise history of the texts and describe the principles by which each has been transcribed from the manuscripts.

There are many other aids for a thorough study of The Prelude and its background. A chronological table enables the reader to contextualize the biographical and historical allusions in the texts and footnotes.

"References to The Prelude in Process" presents the relevant allusions to the poem, by Wordsworth and by members of his circle, from 1799 to 1850. Another section, "Early Reception," reprints significant comments on the published version of 1850 by readers and reviewers.

Finally, there are seven critical essays by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Richard J. Onorato, William Empson, Herbert Lindenberger, and W. B. Gallie.

William Wordsworth (Faber Poetry)

by William Wordsworth

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.

The Prelude

by William Wordsworth

A gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth's The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler.

The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, the work receives the treatment it deserves. Inspired by his dear friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poem charts the development of the author's mind from childhood to his experiences in Cambridge, London, the Alps, and France, touching on subjects ranging from leisure to literature, nature to imagination, and everything in between.

A meditation on the self, this work still stands as a masterpiece of English literature and is here complemented and enhanced by two hundred contemporaneous color plates that illuminate the text. Scrupulously selected and newly re-edited from the definitive manuscripts in existence, the marginal notes and glosses provide an extra touch that makes this a truly enlightening reading experience.

Helen Vendler's afterword is an appreciation of the poem which also puts in it context for American readers.