Wordsworth (Penguin Poetry Library) - Softcover

Calder, Jenni; Williams, W.; Wordsworth, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140585060 ISBN 13: 9780140585063

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1985

Synopsis

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge, settling shortly after in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. He died at Rydal Mount in 1850, shortly before the posthumous publication of that landmark of English Romanticism, The Prelude.

About this title

Book Description:

A selection of William Wordsworth poems, as chosen by Seamus Heaney, as part of Faber's Poet to Poet series.

About the Author:

William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in April 1770, and died there eighty years later on 23 April 1850. In his youth Wordsworth experienced the French Revolution first hand and spent his twenties wandering throughout Europe. In 1794 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and to whom he addressed his epic work, The Prelude. Wordsworth gradually established himself as the great poet of the Romantic period and in 1843 he became Poet Laureate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140585060
• ISBN 13: 9780140585063
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192