William Wordsworth

By William Wordsworth

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571328784
• ISBN13: 9780571328789
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Best Poems of "an idle dreamer"

Seamus Heaney is a good editor if nothing else (I'm not particularly fond of his poetry, despite his Nobel.). But, as Wordsworth says in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads included herein, "I have one request to make of my Reader, which is, that in judging these poems he would decide from his own feelings genuinely, and not by reflection upon what will probably be the judgment of others."-Here are all the finest poems of the first and (finest some say, though I prefer Shelley) out-and-out English Romantic Poet. There's no need to go in search of massive tomes surveying his poetry and his life (unless you are one of those unfortunate creatures known as a graduate student). All the poems that justly made him famous are right here. Recommended to all for whom, "...the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."