The Prelude and Other Poems : Alma Classics - Great Poets

By: William Wordsworth

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Paperback | 23 January 2019

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Though absent long,
These forms of beauty have not been to me,
As is a landscape to a blind man 's eye-
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din
Of towns in cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart

William Wordsworth 's verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ' and She Was a Phantom of Delight '.

Alongside his more personal and introspective compositions, poems such as Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey ', She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways ' and The Idiot Boy ' demonstrate, in an era of political and social ferment, the manner in which Wordsworth, together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forged a revolutionary new poetic style through the publication of Lyrical Ballads one that embraced the vernacular and subjects previously deemed unworthy of poetry and thus changed the literary landscape of England for ever.

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It is as if there were nothing but himself and the universe. He lives in the busy solitude of his own heart. -- William Hazlitt

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