Selected Poems

This selection gathers lyrics, odes, and extracts from the longer poems Wordsworth wrote from the 1790s into the nineteenth century. Short pieces treat childhood, graves, solitaries, and the Lake District; conversation poems recover memory beside the Wye or on Westminster Bridge. Passages from The Prelude follow a mind formed by landscape, Cambridge, and the French Revolution. The book is a cross-section of blank verse and stanza, not a continuous autobiography and not a treatise on poetic theory, though the poems themselves keep returning to how feeling and natural objects instruct the speaker.

Bound in white cloth printed with a two colour illustration. Image printed translucent dust-jacket, no slipcase.