Poems
Assigned by 2 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1798-1850
- Form
- Lyric poetry
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 300 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendWilliam Wordsworth: The Major WorksOxford World's Classics, 2008Stephen Gill's selection prints the poems in their early texts and includes the complete 1805 Prelude.
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A general entry for Wordsworth's poetry as programs assign it in selection. The core is the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 and 1800, including Tintern Abbey and the Lucy poems; the poems of 1807, among them the Immortality Ode, Resolution and Independence and the sonnets such as Composed upon Westminster Bridge; and The Prelude, his long autobiographical poem on the growth of a poet's mind, published after his death in 1850. The subjects are the Lake District, childhood, memory, the poor and the mind's exchange with nature.
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The catalogue entry above is complete: the dates, the form, the themes and every program that assigns Poems are verified against each program's published list.
What is missing is the part that takes real work: the summary, the key passages, and a recommended translation. The edition named below is the one most programs assign, so the buy links are useful already.