This wonderful collection of Wordsworth’s best poetry allows the reader insight into the poet’s mind as his lyrical poetry explores his relationships with friends, family, God and his own self, with themes of nature, humanity, mortality, childhood and religion.
Wordsworth’s work helped to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature, most notably the Lyrical Ballads collection - written in collaboration by Wordsworth and his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This beautiful collection features all of the poems from Lyrical Ballads, as well as Poems, In Two Volumes, 1807, and other assorted poems such as:
From the specialist poetry imprint, Ragged Hand, this wonderful volume would make the perfect gift for fans of Romantic poetry or collectors of the poet laureate’s work.
William Wordsworth (1770 –1850) was born in Cockermouth, England, and was part of the famous Lake Poets group. Wordsworth was the United Kingdom’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. He is best-known for his collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, that he wrote and published with his friend and fellow Lake Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The seminal collection helped to set England’s Romantic Era in motion.