Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2008. Stephen Gill a Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

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He holds degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and is a long-serving member of the Wordsworth Trust. A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry.

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Only selections are made from The Prelude but that keeps the book to manageable proportions. 'The Excursion' on the other hand is not included at all, because Stephen Gill, the editor, didn't think its style lent itself to excerpts as in the 'Prelude'.

The introduction is fine but a bit on the short side in my opinion. As a young man he was fired with enthusiasm for the French Revolution but the year he spent in France after graduating left him disillusioned with radical politics. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2013, Beautifully selected poems, in clear to read print. He has written William Wordsworth: A Life (1989) and Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. His return to the Lake District in 1799 marked the beginning of his most productive period as a poet, during which he wrote his most famous long poem, The Prelude (1805). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2019. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Beloved Book Characters for Kids of All Ages, The Ultimate Guide to Adult Coloring Books, Audiobooks Read By Your Favorite Celebrities. William Wordsworth, who rallied for "common speech" within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in Western literature, including his most famous work, The Prelude, which is often considered to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism. Share this book with your friends and family.

Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Please try again later. the time is come when thou shouldst wean’Composed by the Seas-Side, near Calais‘It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free’To Toussaint L’OuvertureComposed in the Valley, near Dover, on the Day of LandingComposed Upon Westminster BridgeLondon, 1802‘Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room’Yarrow Unvisited‘She was a Phantom of delight’Ode to DutyOde: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’Stepping WestwardThe Solitary ReaperElegiac StanzasA ComplaintGipsiesSt.

Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth’s astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.

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