The Prelude, Selected Poems and Sonnets

by William Wordsworth

Edited with an Introduction by Carlos Baker

Genres: Poetry

480 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1961

About the author

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

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The prelude;: With a selection from the shorter poems; the sonnets; The recluse; and The excursion; and three essays on by William Wordsworth