Prelude and Other Poems

The Romantic age was characterized by a sense of unity and connection between all things, as expressed in William Wordsworth's verse. This collection includes a diverse selection of his works, from The Prelude to shorter poems like 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and 'She Was a Phantom of Delight.' Alongside his personal and introspective compositions, poems like 'Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey' and 'The Idiot Boy' show how Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge forged a revolutionary new poetic style through the publication of Lyrical Ballads, which embraced the vernacular and subjects previously deemed unworthy of poetry.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 416 pages
\n Publication date: 23 May 2019
\n Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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“Though absent long,These forms of beauty have not been to me,As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye:But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the dinOf towns in cities, I have owed to them,In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart”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.

\n Weight: 384g\n
Dimension: 193 x 124 x 31 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781847497505\n \n