{"product_id":"selected-poetry-of-william-wordsworth-isbn-9780375759413","title":"Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth","description":"\u003ci\u003eSelected Poetry of William Wordsworth\u003c\/i\u003e represents Wordsworth’s prolific output, from the poems first published in \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e in 1798 that changed the face of English poetry to the late “Yarrow Revisited.” Wordsworth’s poetry is celebrated for its deep feeling, its use of ordinary speech, the love of nature it expresses, and its representation of commonplace things and events. As Matthew Arnold notes, “[Wordsworth’s poetry] is great because of the extraordinary power with which [he] feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple elementary affections and duties.”Biographical Note  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction  \u003cbr\u003e An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady \u003cbr\u003e Descriptive Sketches. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps \u003cbr\u003e Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain \u003cbr\u003e Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Commanding a Beautiful Prospect \u003cbr\u003e The Reverie of Poor Susan \u003cbr\u003e A Night-Piece \u003cbr\u003e We Are Seven \u003cbr\u003e Anecdote for Fathers\u003cbr\u003e The Thorn\u003cbr\u003e Goody Blake and Harry Gill. A True Story \u003cbr\u003e Her Eyes Are Wild \u003cbr\u003e Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman; with an Incident in Which He Was Concerned \u003cbr\u003e Lines Written in Early Spring \u003cbr\u003e To My Sister \u003cbr\u003e \"A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill\" \u003cbr\u003e Expostulation and Reply \u003cbr\u003e The Tables Turned. An Evening Scene on the Same Subject \u003cbr\u003e The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman \u003cbr\u003e The Last of the Flock \u003cbr\u003e The Idiot Boy \u003cbr\u003e Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour July 13, 1798 \u003cbr\u003e The Old Cumberland Beggar \u003cbr\u003e Animal Tranquillity and Decay \u003cbr\u003e Peter Bell. A Tale \u003cbr\u003e The Simplon Pass \u003cbr\u003e Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth \u003cbr\u003e There Was a Boy\u003cbr\u003e Nutting \u003cbr\u003e \"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known\" \u003cbr\u003e \"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways\" \u003cbr\u003e \"I Travelled Among Unknown Men\" \u003cbr\u003e \"There Years She Grew in Sun and Shower\" \u003cbr\u003e \"A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal\" \u003cbr\u003e A Poet's Epitaph \u003cbr\u003e Matthew \u003cbr\u003e The Two April Mornings \u003cbr\u003e The Fountain. A Conversation\u003cbr\u003e Lucy Gray; or, Solitude \u003cbr\u003e Ruth \u003cbr\u003e \"Bleak Season Was It, Turbulent and Wild\" \u003cbr\u003e \"On Nature's Invitation Do I Come\" \u003cbr\u003e The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind. An Autobiographical Poem \u003cbr\u003e The Recluse \u003cbr\u003e The Brothers \u003cbr\u003e Michael. A Pastoral Poem \u003cbr\u003e The Pet-Lamb. A Pastoral \u003cbr\u003e The Waterfall and the Eglantine\u003cbr\u003e The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral \u003cbr\u003e Hart-leap Well \u003cbr\u003e The Childless Father \u003cbr\u003e The Sparrow's Nest \u003cbr\u003e The Sailor's Mother \u003cbr\u003e Alice Fell; or, Poverty \u003cbr\u003e To a Butterfly\u003cbr\u003e \"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold\" \u003cbr\u003e \"Among All Lovely Things My Love Had Been\" \u003cbr\u003e Written in March, While Resting on the Bridge at the Foot of Brother's Water \u003cbr\u003e To a Butterfly\u003cbr\u003e To the Small Celandine \u003cbr\u003e Resolution and Independence \u003cbr\u003e \"I Grieved for Buonaparte\" \u003cbr\u003e A Farewell \u003cbr\u003e Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e Calais, August, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e \"It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free\" \u003cbr\u003e On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic \u003cbr\u003e To Toussaint L'Ouverture \u003cbr\u003e Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing \u003cbr\u003e Near Dover, September, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e In London, September, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e London, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e \"England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should'st Wean\" \u003cbr\u003e \"Great Men Have Been Among Us\"\u003cbr\u003e \"It Is Not to Be Thought of That the Flood\"\u003cbr\u003e \"When I Have Borne in Memory\" \u003cbr\u003e Stanzas Written in My Pocket-Copy of Thomson's \"Castle of Indolence\" \u003cbr\u003e To H. C. Six Years Old \u003cbr\u003e The Green Linnet \u003cbr\u003e Yew-trees \u003cbr\u003e Stepping Westward \u003cbr\u003e The Solitary Reaper \u003cbr\u003e Yarrow Unvisited \u003cbr\u003e October, 1803 \u003cbr\u003e To the Men of Kent. October, 1803 \u003cbr\u003e In the Pass of Killicranky, an Invasion Being Expected, October, 1803 \u003cbr\u003e Lines on the Expected Invasion, 1803 \u003cbr\u003e To the Cuckoo \u003cbr\u003e \"She Was a Phantom of Delight\" \u003cbr\u003e \"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud\" \u003cbr\u003e The Affliction of Margaret \u003cbr\u003e The Small Celandine \u003cbr\u003e Ode to Duty\u003cbr\u003e \"When to the Attractions of the Busy World\" \u003cbr\u003e Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont \u003cbr\u003e To a Young Lady, Who Had Been Reproached for Taking Long Walks in the Country\u003cbr\u003e The Waggoner \u003cbr\u003e French Revolution, As It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement. Reprinted from the Friend \u003cbr\u003e Character of the Happy Warrior \u003cbr\u003e Star-Gazers \u003cbr\u003e \"Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room\" \u003cbr\u003e Personal Talk \u003cbr\u003e \"The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon\" \u003cbr\u003e \"With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh\" \u003cbr\u003e \"Where Lies the Land to Which Yon Ship Must Go?\" \u003cbr\u003e To Sleep \u003cbr\u003e To Sleep \u003cbr\u003e To Sleep \u003cbr\u003e To the Memory of Raisley Calvert \u003cbr\u003e \"Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne\" \u003cbr\u003e November, 1806 \u003cbr\u003e Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood \u003cbr\u003e Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland \u003cbr\u003e \"Though Narrow Be That Old Man's Cares\" \u003cbr\u003e Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of His Ancestors \u003cbr\u003e The White Doe of Rylstone; on the Fate of the Nortons \u003cbr\u003e The Excursion, Book I \u003cbr\u003e Laodamia \u003cbr\u003e Yarrow Visited, September, 1814 \u003cbr\u003e \"Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind\" \u003cbr\u003e Ode to Lycoris. May, 1817 \u003cbr\u003e Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty \u003cbr\u003e The River Duddon. A Series of Sonnets \u003cbr\u003e Ecclesiastical Sonnets. In Series. (A Selection) \u003cbr\u003e Pt. I. From the Introduction of Christianity into Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion \u003cbr\u003e Pt. II. To the Close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I \u003cbr\u003e Pt. III. From the Restoration to the Present Times\u003cbr\u003e \"Scorn Not the Sonnet\" \u003cbr\u003e Yarrow Revisited \u003cbr\u003e \"If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light from Heaven\" \u003cbr\u003e \"If This Great World of Joy and Pain\" \u003cbr\u003e \"Most Sweet It Is with Unuplifted Eyes\" \u003cbr\u003e To a Child. Written in Her Album \u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Second Edition of \"Lyrical Ballads,\" 1800\u003cbr\u003e Appendix, 1802 \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index of Titles \u003cbr\u003e Index of First Lines“The poetical performance of Wordsworth is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton . . . undoubtedly the most\u003cbr\u003econsiderable in our language from the Elizabethan age to the present time.”—\u003cb\u003eMatthew Arnold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Van Doren\u003c\/b\u003e (1894–1973) was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and critic who taught English at Columbia University for nearly thirty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bromwich\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at Yale Univer-sity and the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eDisowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e1787—89 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Evening Walk addressed to a young lady General Sketch of the Lakes — Author’s regret of his youth which was passed amongst them —Short description of Noon — Cascade — Noontide Retreat — Precipice and sloping Lights — Face of Nature as the Sun declines — Mountain-farm, and the Cock — Slate-quarry — Sunset — Superstition of the Country connected with that moment — Swans — Female Beggar — Twilight-sounds — Western Lights — Spirits — Night — Moonlight — Hope — Night-sounds — Conclusion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar from my dearest Friend, ’tis mine to rove\u003cbr\u003e Through bare grey dell, high wood, and pastoral cove; \u003cbr\u003eWhere Derwent rests, and listens to the roar\u003cbr\u003eThat stuns the tremulous cliffs of high Lodore; \u003cbr\u003eWhere peace to Grasmere’s lonely island leads, \u003cbr\u003eTo willowy hedge-rows, and to emerald meads; \u003cbr\u003eLeads to her bridge, rude church, and cottaged grounds, \u003cbr\u003eHer rocky sheepwalks, and her woodland bounds; \u003cbr\u003eWhere, undisturbed by winds, Winander sleeps \u003cbr\u003e’Mid clustering isles, and holly-sprinkled steeps;\u003cbr\u003eWhere twilight glens endear my Esthwaite’s shore, \u003cbr\u003eAnd memory of departed pleasures, more.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFair scenes, erewhile, I taught, a happy child, \u003cbr\u003eThe echoes of your rocks my carols wild: \u003cbr\u003eThe spirit sought not then, in cherished sadness, \u003cbr\u003eA cloudy substitute for failing gladness. \u003cbr\u003eIn youth’s keen eye the livelong day was bright, \u003cbr\u003eThe sun at morning, and the stars at night, \u003cbr\u003eAlike, when first the bittern’s hollow bill \u003cbr\u003eWas heard, or woodcocks roamed the moonlight hill.\u003cbr\u003eIn thoughtless gaiety I coursed the plain, \u003cbr\u003eAnd hope itself was all I knew of pain; \u003cbr\u003eFor then, the inexperienced heart would beat \u003cbr\u003eAt times, while young Content forsook her seat, \u003cbr\u003eAnd wild Impatience, pointing upward, showed, \u003cbr\u003eThrough passes yet unreached, a brighter road, \u003cbr\u003eAlas! the idle tale of man is found \u003cbr\u003eDepicted in the dial’s moral round; \u003cbr\u003eHope with reflection blends her social rays \u003cbr\u003eTo gild the total tablet of his days;\u003cbr\u003eYet still, the sport of some malignant power, \u003cbr\u003eHe knows but from its shade the present hour. \u003cbr\u003eBut why, ungrateful, dwell on idle pain? \u003cbr\u003eTo show what pleasures yet to me remain, \u003cbr\u003eSay, will my Friend, with unreluctant ear, \u003cbr\u003eThe history of a poet’s evening hear? \u003cbr\u003eWhen, in the south, the wan noon, brooding still, \u003cbr\u003eBreathed a pale steam around the glaring hill, \u003cbr\u003eAnd shades of deep-embattled clouds were seen, \u003cbr\u003eSpotting the northern cliffs with lights between;\u003cbr\u003eWhen crowding cattle, checked by rails that make \u003cbr\u003eA fence far stretched into the shallow lake, \u003cbr\u003eLashed the cool water with their restless tails, \u003cbr\u003eOr from high points of rock looked out for fanning gales: \u003cbr\u003eWhen school-boys stretched their length upon the green; \u003cbr\u003eAnd round the broad-spread oak, a glimmering scene, \u003cbr\u003eIn the rough fern-clad park, the herded deer \u003cbr\u003eShook the still-twinkling tail and glancing ear; \u003cbr\u003eWhen horses in the sunburnt intake stood, \u003cbr\u003eAnd vainly eyed below the tempting flood,\u003cbr\u003eOr tracked the passenger, in mute distress, \u003cbr\u003eWith forward neck the closing gate to press— \u003cbr\u003eThen, while I wandered where the huddling rill \u003cbr\u003eBrightens with water-breaks the hollow ghyll \u003cbr\u003eAs by enchantment, an obscure retreat \u003cbr\u003eOpened at once, and stayed my devious feet. \u003cbr\u003eWhile thick above the rill the branches close,\u003cbr\u003eIn rocky basin its wild waves repose,\u003cbr\u003eInverted shrubs, and moss of gloomy green,\u003cbr\u003eCling from the rocks, with pale wood-weeds between;","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303233278181,"sku":"NP9780375759413","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375759413.jpg?v=1767736323","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/selected-poetry-of-william-wordsworth-isbn-9780375759413","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}