Wordsworth's PoetsDuncan Wu A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in The Prelude. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 41
Page 62
... Lady's Love This beautiful old ballad most probably took its rise from one of those descents made on the Spanish coasts in the time of queen Elizabeth : in all likelihood from that which is cele- brated in the foregoing ballad . Printed ...
... Lady's Love This beautiful old ballad most probably took its rise from one of those descents made on the Spanish coasts in the time of queen Elizabeth : in all likelihood from that which is cele- brated in the foregoing ballad . Printed ...
Page 63
... lady ; Rest you still , and weep no more ; Of fair lovers there are plenty , Spain doth yield you wonderous store . ' Spaniards fraught with jealousy we oft do find , But English men throughout the world are counted kind . Leave me not ...
... lady ; Rest you still , and weep no more ; Of fair lovers there are plenty , Spain doth yield you wonderous store . ' Spaniards fraught with jealousy we oft do find , But English men throughout the world are counted kind . Leave me not ...
Page 172
... Lady Margaret ' , which he copied into the album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ; this text is edited from his transcription . When writing to Lady Beaumont in November 1811 he recommended that she read it , remarking that ...
... Lady Margaret ' , which he copied into the album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ; this text is edited from his transcription . When writing to Lady Beaumont in November 1811 he recommended that she read it , remarking that ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose Great | 15 |
Elizabeth Carter Ode to Spring 1756 | 35 |
Copyright | |
28 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Alexander Dyce Anderson's British Poets anthology auld beneath bonny Braes of Yarrow Burns busk Busk ye Carlyle's note Charlotte Smith Christopher Wordsworth clouds Coleridge Collins collonell Commonplace Book copy Cowper dark Date of reading dear death Dora Dorothy Dorothy Wordsworth doth Dove Cottage earth ev'ry extract fair favourite Grasmere green Hamlet happy hast hath Hawkshead hear heart heaven Helen Maria Williams Henry Crabb Robinson hill Klopstock Lady Beaumont Lady Mary Lowther lake letter light lines Lord luve Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night o'er Paradise Paradise Lost poem poetry praise rocks Rydal Mount scene seem'd shade sleep song Sonnet soul Southey stanzas stream Suggested date sweet tears text is edited thee thine things Thomson thought told Troilus and Criseyde vale verse William William Wordsworth winds Wordsworth read write wyllowe wyllowe tree youth