The Poetical Works
of
William Wordsworth
With Memoir , Explanatory Notes , Etc.
Published By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
13 Astor Place
New York
circa
1888
The title-page is undated.
There is an old handwritten inscription on front endpaper, dated 1888.
The Publisher, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, was in operation at 13 Astor Place in New York from 1881 until 1893 - this book was published between those years.
Hardcover.
Decorated Cloth Binding.
Stamped & Gilt Binding Decoration.
All Page Edges Gilt.
Red-Ruled Page Margins.
5.25" x 7.25"
707 Pages
*** About 124 Years Old ***
The Poems of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) , British Poet .
Hundreds of Poems - nearly all of Wordsworth poetry can be found here.
All his Finest and Best poems are in this volume.
Includes Full-Page Illustrations [ Plates ].
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A Sampling of The Contents includes:
Poems of Childhood
To A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening
The Shepherd Boys
The Blind Highland Boy ( Scotland )
The Mother's Return
The Norman Boy
The Westmoreland Girl
Characteristics of A Child Three Years Old
Anecdote For Fathers
....And More.
Written in Youth
An Evening Walk
While Sailing a Boat
Guilt and Sorrow or Incidents on Salisbury Plain
....And More.
Poems Founded on the Affections
The Brothers
Lament of Mary Queen Of Scots
To A Butterfly
Complaint of A Forsaken Indian Woman
The Childless Father
The Sailor's Mother
The Last of The Flock
The Widow on Windemere Side
Maternal Grief
The Idiot Boy
The Armenian Lady's Love
....And More.
Poems of the Fancy and Imagination
To The Daisy
The Oak And The Broom
The Danish Boy
Song For The Wandering Jew
The Redbreast and the Butterfly
The Kitten And The Falling Leaves
To My Infant Daughter
Love Lies Bleeding
The Wagoner
To The Cuckoo
Yew Trees
View From The Top of Black Comb - Cumberland
Nutting
"She Was A Phantom of Delight"
The Horn of Egremont Castle
"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud"
Stepping Westward
Glen Almain
Gipsies
Beggars
Star Gazers
The Pass of Kirkstone
Resolution and Independence
Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle
Lines Composed Near Tintern Abbey
The Haunted Tree
A Jewish Family
Peter Bell - A Tale ( 12 pages )
....And More.
Poems proceeding from Sentiment and Reflection
Character of the Happy Warrior
Rob Roy's Grave ( Rob Roy of Scotland )
Lines Left Upon A Seat In A Yew Tree
A Poet's Epitaph
To The Sons of Burns - Afer Visting Their Father's Grave
It Is The First Mild Day of March
Simon Lee - The Old Huntsman
Lines Written While Sailing A Boat At Evening
Incident of A Favourite Dog
The Force of Prayer
Fidelity
Ode To Duty
....And More.
" The White Dow of Rhylstone "
(20 pages)
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland , 1803 and 1814
The Grave of Robert Burns , 1803
To the Sons of Burns , after visiting the Grave of their Father
Rob Roy's Grave ( Rob Roy of Scotland )
Address to Kilchurn Castle upjn Loch Awe
In the Pass of Killicranky
To a Highland Girl
The Blind Highland Boy
Ellen Irwin or the Braes of Kirtle
The Brownie 's Cell
Cora Linn , in sight of the Tower of Wallace
Effusion on the Banks of Bran near Dunkeld
Yarrow , 1814
....And More.
Yarrow Revisited ; Poems of a Tour in Scotland and on the English Border , 1831
To a Gallant Youth
A Burial Place in the South of Scotland
A Manse in the South of Scotland
In Roslin Chapel during a Storm
The Trosachs
In the Glen of Loch Etive
Eagles , composed at Dunollie Castle in the Bay of Oban
The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Mansion and family Burial Ground near Killin
The Highland Hut
The Highland Broach
The Brownie
Bothwell Castle
A View in Inglewood Forest
The Avon
Roman Antiquities
....And More.
Miscellaneous Sonnets
"Upon Sight of A Beautiful Picture"
"The Fairest, Brightest Hues of Ether Fade"
"Hail Twilight, Sovereign of One Peaceful Hour"
"Even As A Dragon 's Eye"
"These Words Were Uttered In A Pensive Mood"
"Dark And More Dark The Shades of Evening Fell"
To Sleep
To The Supreme Being
"Earth Has Not Anything To Show More Fair"
"Surprised By Joy"
"What Need of Clamorous Bells or Ribbons Gay "
"From The Chambers of Dejection Freed"
On approaching Home after a Tour of Scotland
Composed among the Ruins of a Castle in North Wales
Captivity - Mary Queen of Scots
With Ships the Sea was sprinkled
Composed on the Eve of the Marriage of a Friend in the Vale of Grasmere , 1812
At Applethwaite , near Keswick
The Wild Ducks Nest
Even as a Dragon 's Eye
....And Many, Many More.
Sonnets Dedicated to Independence and Liberty
"Fair Star of Evening, Splendour of The West "
"O Friend! I Know Not Which Way I Must Look"
" Milton Thou Shouldest Be Living At This Hour"
"Great Men Have Been Amoung US"
"Is It A Reed That's Shaken By The Wind"
"There Is A Bondage That's Worse To Bear"
"Six Thousand Veterans Practiced In War's Game"
"Shout For A Mighty Victory's Won"
"O'er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain"
"Is There A Power That Can Sustain And Cheer?"
"In Due Observance of An Ancient Rite "
"The Power of Armies Is A Visible Thing"
The Oak of Guernica
On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History
A Prophecy , 1807
The Oak of Guernica
Indignation of a high-minded Spaniard
Spanish Guerillas
....And Many More.
Memorials of a Tour on the Continent , 1820
[ about 40 poems ]
Memorials of a Tour in Italy , 1837
[ about 30 poems ]
The Egyptian Maid , or the Romance of the Water Lily
[ this poem concerns Merlin the Wizard , King Arthur , Nina the Lady of the Lake , the knight Sir Lancelot , etc., and is 4 pages long ]
The River Duddon - A Series of Sonnets
Poems of the Summer of 1833
[ about 50 poems on England and the English countryside ].
Poems on Liberty , on the Death as a Punishment , etc.
[ Dozens of these ]
Thanksgiving Odes
Ode For The Morning of the Day Appointed For A General Thanksgiving
When The Soft Hand of Sleep Had Closed The Latch
Miscellaneous Pieces
Ode "Who Rises On The Banks of the River Seine "
Elegiac Verses
"O! For The Kindling Touch of That Pure Flame"
To Joanna
There Is An Eminence of These Our Hills
....And More.
Inscriptions
Written With A Slate Pencil Upon Stone In A Quarry In the Islands at Rydale
Written Upon Stone in Black Comb Cumberland
In The Garden At Coleorton
Written On The Wall of the House On the Island of Grasmere ( Cumbria England )
Inscriptions in a Hermit's Cell
....And More.
Poems refering to Old Age
The Old Cumberland Beggar
The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale
The Two Thieves
Animal Tranquility
Selections from Chaucer , Modernized
Epitaphs
[ Many ]
Ecclesiastical Sonnets
[ Poems based on History of the Introduction of Christianity into Britain ]
The Druids
Struggles of the Britons against the Barbarians
Saxon Conquest
Primitive Saxon Clergy
Saxon Monasteries
King Alfred
Danish Conquests [ Vikings ]
Canute
Norman Conquest
The Crusades
King Richard I
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Evening Poems
By the Sea Side
By the Side of Rydal Mere
To the Moon
...and More.
The Prelude ; Or, Growth Of A Poet's Mind
( 90 pages)
" The Excursion "
( 110 pages)
Biographical Information:
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
British poet, who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion recollected in tranquillity" was shared by a number of his followers.
"Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science." (from Lyrical Ballads, 2nd ed., 1800)
William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District. His father was John Wordsworth, Sir James Lowther's attorney. The magnificent landscape deeply affected Wordsworth's imagination and gave him a love of nature. He lost his mother when he was eight and five years later his father. The domestic problems separated Wordsworth from his beloved and neurotic sister Dorothy, who was a very important person in his life. Dorothy had especially fresh contact to nature. She provided Wordsworth a valuable source of thoughts and impressions for which he was usually given full credit.
With the help of his two uncles, Wordsworth entered a local school and continue his studies at Cambridge University. As writer Wordsworth made his debut in 1787, when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. In that same year he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, from where he took his B.A. in 1791. During a summer vacation in 1790 Wordsworth went on a walking tour through revolutionary France and also traveled in Switzerland.
On his second journey in France, Wordsworth had an affair with a French girl, Annette Vallon, a daughter of a barber-surgeon, by whom he had a illegitimate daughter Anne Caroline. The affair was basis of the poem 'Vaudracour and Julia', but otherwise Wordsworth did his best to hide the affair from posterity. After his journeys Wordsworth spent several aimless and unhappy years. In 1795 he met Coleridge. Wordsworth's financial situation became better in 1795 when he received a legacy and was able to settle at Racedown, Dorset, with his sister Dorothy.
Encouraged by Coleridge and stimulated by the close contact with nature, Wordsworth composed his first masterwork, Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner.' About 1798 he started to write large and philosophical autobiographical poem, completed in 1805, and published posthumously in 1850 under the title THE PRELUDE. The long work described the poet's love of nature and his own place in the world order.
"Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows
Like harmony in music; there is a dark
Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, makes them cling together
In one society."
The winter 1798-99 Wordsworth spent with his sister and Coleridge in Germany, where he wrote several poems, including the enigmatic 'Lucy' poems. After return he moved Dove Cottage, Grasmere, and in 1802 married Mary Hutchinson. They cared for Wordsworth's sister Dorothy for the last 20 years of life - she had lost her mind as a result of physical ailments. Almost all Dorothy's memory was destroyed, she sat by the fire, and occasionally recited her brother's poems.
Wordsworth's second verse collection, POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES, appeared in 1807. In the same year Thomas de Quincey met first time Wordsworth and wrote about him and other Lake Poets in several essays. He described revealingly Wordsworth's mean appearance and Dorothy's lack of sex appeal. The frankness of his text, although published in the 1830s and 1840s, was considered indiscreet by later Victorian critics.
Wordsworth's central works were produced between 1797 and 1808. His poems written during middle and late years have not gained similar critical approval. Wordsworth's Grasmere period ended in 1813 when he moved to Rydal Mount. He was appointed official distributor of stamps for Westmoreland. He moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside, where he spent the rest of his life. From the age of 50 his creative began to decline, but three female assistants took care of him, and filled his life with admiration. Wordsworth abandoned his radical faith and became a patriotic, conservative public man.
In 1843 he succeeded Robert Southey (1774-1843) as England's poet laureate.
William Wordsworth died on April 23, 1850.
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