1st Edition

The Earliest Wordsworth Poems 1785-1790

Edited By Duncan Wu, William Wordsworth Copyright 2003
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

These early poems, made readily accessible to a general readership for the first time, offer a unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer from the outset of his career. These poems reveal how the traumas of early life forged his vision and produced the insights that would make Wordsworth one of the most gifted celebrants of the human spirit. In effect, they chronicle the... Read more
Introduction Acknowledgements A note on texts Abbreviations The Collected Poems Notes Subject Index Index of Titles and First Lines

Biography

William Wordsworth, Duncan Wu