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Original Title:	The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
ISBN:	0192840444 (ISBN13: 9780192840448)
Edition Language:	English

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative. This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.

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Title	:	The Major Works
Author	:	William Wordsworth
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 784 pages
Published	:	July 27th 2000 by Oxford University Press (first published 1904)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Literature. European Literature. British Literature. Medievalism. Romanticism. Fiction. 19th Century

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This is possibly written for children, but it is just as enjoyable for adults. I like the illustrations. There are also small notes of explanation for words that people might not be familiar with now. It's a wonderful overview of his poetry and there is also biographical information that I found very interesting.

Poems I read in my childhood.

It was in reading Wordsworth years ago that I learned that the ancient division between philosophy and poetry is a false one, and that both, rightly seen and wholeheartedly pursued, are ultimately convergent trajectories of the human spirit. Wordsworth is the quintessential philosophical poet, I think. His work best displays what contribution poetry can offer to philosophy in the search for wisdom. It was especially his Preface to his Lyrical Ballads, and some of the poems contained therein,

[Quick review from memory before I re-read and re-review at a later date](This is currently on the pile on poetry that I am aiming to read at some point, having bought this for university but probably didn't really pay much attention at the time. I'm not the biggest Wordsworth fan but I'm sure he'll have something decent within this brick of a book.)

One of the finest poet of the English language. His most of the poems reflect about nature and scenery of her beauty. His works are a real masterclass. I remember one of his poem 'The solitary reaper' that has struck my heart at the core. His poems are realistic, sarcastic and beautiful to read or sing it.

Poems like "The Ruined Cottage" and "Tintern Abbey" are as close to perfect as poetry can be. Unpretentious, intellectual, and evocative. Wordsworth takes the simple and common and makes it achingly wonderful. Our sneering, eye-rolling, nod and wink post-modern sensibilities could certainly use a little more of the earnestness exhibited in these poems.

Usually I really have to like poetry to read it in my spare time although I do love studying it as you get a full grasp of the use of the language. Although I am going to study it this was one of the first times reading it before study which was new and although it did take me awhile to be able to get used it to I did begin to really enjoy this.