The Major Works

Voorkant
Oxford University Press, 2000 - 752 pagina's
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.

Vanuit het boek

Inhoudsopgave

I
xiii
II
xxvi
III
xxvii
IV
xxx
V
13
VI
29
VII
31
IX
44
XCIV
271
XCVI
272
XCVIII
273
C
274
CII
275
CIV
276
CVI
277
CVIII
278

X
45
XI
49
XII
54
XIII
56
XIV
59
XV
66
XVI
67
XVII
80
XVIII
81
XIX
83
XX
85
XXI
88
XXII
91
XXIII
129
XXIV
130
XXV
131
XXVI
136
XXVII
137
XXVIII
138
XXIX
140
XXX
142
XXXII
143
XXXIII
144
XXXIV
145
XXXV
146
XXXVI
147
XXXIX
148
XL
149
XLI
151
XLII
153
XLIII
154
XLIV
155
XLV
168
XLVI
174
XLVII
199
XLIX
201
L
203
LII
205
LIII
206
LIV
207
LV
208
LVI
210
LVII
211
LVIII
214
LIX
216
LX
217
LXI
220
LXII
223
LXIII
224
LXIV
237
LXVI
238
LXVII
239
LXIX
241
LXX
243
LXXI
244
LXXII
245
LXXIII
246
LXXV
247
LXXVI
248
LXXVIII
250
LXXIX
252
LXXX
253
LXXXI
254
LXXXII
255
LXXXIII
256
LXXXIV
257
LXXXV
259
LXXXVI
260
LXXXVII
265
LXXXIX
267
XC
268
XCII
269
XCIII
270
CIX
280
CXI
281
CXIII
282
CXV
283
CXVI
284
CXVIII
285
CXX
286
CXXI
287
CXXIII
288
CXXIV
289
CXXV
290
CXXVI
292
CXXVII
293
CXXVIII
294
CXXIX
295
CXXXII
297
CXXXIV
303
CXXXVI
304
CXXXVII
306
CXXXVIII
307
CXL
308
CXLI
311
CXLII
312
CXLIII
313
CXLIV
314
CXLV
318
CXLVI
319
CXLVII
320
CXLVIII
322
CXLIX
323
CL
325
CLI
326
CLII
328
CLIII
329
CLIV
330
CLVI
331
CLVIII
332
CLX
333
CLXI
334
CLXIII
335
CLXIV
338
CLXV
340
CLXVII
341
CLXIX
345
CLXX
347
CLXXI
350
CLXXII
351
CLXXIII
352
CLXXIV
353
CLXXVII
354
CLXXXI
355
CLXXXII
356
CLXXXIII
357
CLXXXIV
358
CLXXXV
365
CLXXXVI
370
CLXXXVII
371
CLXXXVIII
372
CLXXXIX
375
CXC
591
CXCI
593
CXCII
595
CXCIII
616
CXCIV
620
CXCV
626
CXCVI
640
CXCVII
663
CXCVIII
676
CXCIX
682
CC
741
CCI
744
Copyright

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Over de auteur (2000)

William Wordsworth, 1770 - 1850 Born April 7, 1770 in the "Lake Country" of northern England, the great English poet William Wordsworth, son of a prominent aristocrat, was orphaned at an early age. He attended boarding school in Hawkesmead and, after an undistinguished career at Cambridge, he spent a year in revolutionary France, before returning to England a penniless radical. Wordsworth later received honorary degrees from the University of Durham and Oxford University. He is best known for his work "The Prelude", which was published after his death. For five years, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived very frugally in rural England, where they met Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Lyrical Ballads", published anonymously in 1798, led off with Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" and ended with Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey". Between these two masterworks are at least a dozen other great poems. "Lyrical Ballads" is often said to mark the beginning of the English romantic revolution. A second, augmented edition in 1800 was prefaced by one of the great manifestos in world literature, an essay that called for natural language in poetry, subject matter dealing with ordinary men and women, a return to emotions and imagination, and a conception of poetry as pleasure and prophecy. Together with Robert Southey, these three were known as the "Lake Poets", the elite of English poetry. Before he was 30, Wordsworth had begun the supreme work of his life, The Prelude, an immensely long autobiographical work on "The Growth of the Poet's Mind," a theme unprecedented in poetry. Although first finished in 1805, The Prelude was never published in Wordsworth's lifetime. Between 1797 and 1807, he produced a steady stream of magnificent works, but little of his work over the last four decades of his life matters greatly. "The Excursion", a poem of epic length, was considered by Hazlitt and Keats to be among the wonders of the age. After "Lyrical Ballads", Wordsworth turned to his own life, his spiritual and poetical development, as his major theme. More than anyone else, he dealt with mysterious affinities between nature and humanity. Poems like the "Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" have a mystical power quite independent of any particular creed, and simple lyrics like "The Solitary Reaper" produced amazingly powerful effects with the simplest materials. Wordsworth also revived the sonnet and is one of the greatest masters of that form. Wordsworth is one of the giants of English poetry and criticism, his work ranging from the almost childishly simple to the philosophically profound. Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson in 1802 and in 1813, obtained a sinecure as distributor of stamps for Westmoreland. At this stage of his life, Wordsworth's political beliefs had strayed from liberal to staunchly conservative. His last works were published around 1835, a few trickled in as the years went on, but the bulk of his writing had slowed. In 1842 he was awarded a government pension and in 1843 became the Poet Laureate of England, after the post was vacated by his friend Coleridge. Wordsworth wrote over 523 sonnets in the course of his lifetime. Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850. He is buried in Grasme Curchyard. He was 80 years old.

Bibliografische gegevens