The Prelude and Other Poems

by William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth’s verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘She Was a Phantom of Delight’.

Alongside his more personal and introspective compositions, poems such as ‘Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’, ‘She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways’ and ‘The Idiot Boy’ demonstrate, in an era of political and social ferment, the manner in which Wordsworth, together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forged a revolutionary new poetic style through the publication of Lyrical Ballads – one that embraced the vernacular and subjects previously deemed unworthy of poetry – and thus changed the literary landscape of England for ever.

Genres: Poetry

417 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 16, 2001

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.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a big Wordsworth fan, see Romantic era. The book is about him and his friend Coleridge through correspondence, he wrote this his whole life (Coleridge was a very good writer too but it may be because of family lack of or size, he weren't well known. I don't keep track of everything always. Which is a weird things). I think they studied together. Included are a small amount of poems that are a regular poem style, with title. Very slim though in my opinion. Ive been reading bits of this book for years. I get blown away by how good it is. He wasn't gay included because I think there's a bias there in writeups. He was quite hippy like though for that time period. People boarded together in country houses. You'd have to to write paint etc. But not necessarily as some are much more inclined to it.

I'm not exactly sure I like preludes to be clear.

[Rupert · Rating 3 out of 5]

tel un oeil de dragon qui se sent affaibli sous l’effet du sommeil