Wordsworth: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

About this book

Of all the lasting innovations that William Wordsworth (1770-1850) brought to our literature it is his discovery of nature and his fresh vision of human lives in the context of nature that have most influenced our cultural climate. Here collected in this volume are Wordsworths finest works some of the most beautiful poems ever written: from the famous lyrical ballads including The Tables Turned and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey to the sonnets and narrative poems to excerpts from his magnum opus The Preludes. By turning away from mythological subjects and artificial diction toward the life and language around him Wordsworth acquired for poetry the strength and new sources of inspiration that have allowed it to survive and flourish in the modern world.