Poems

This volume gathers lyrics, odes, and narrative pieces Wordsworth wrote from the 1790s into the nineteenth century. Typical subjects are childhood memory, solitaries, graves, and the Lake District; conversation poems recover feeling beside rivers and on city bridges. Longer blank verse follows the growth of a mind among mountains, Cambridge, and the French Revolution. Short pieces on daffodils, beggars, and ruined cottages sit beside extracts from The Prelude. There is no single plot. The book is a cross-section of a Romantic poet's work, not a continuous autobiography and not a treatise on poetic theory.

Quarter bound in brown leather, brown cloth boards. Pale brown endleaves. Pale brown slipcase.