Selected Poems and Prefaces

by Wordsworth, William; Stillinger, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780395051795
• ISBN10: 0395051797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1964-01-02
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Chronology	xxi
Poems
An Evening Walk	3	(9)
Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree	12	(1)
The Reverie of Poor Susan	13	(1)
The Old Cumberland Beggar	14	(4)
Animal Tranquillity and Decay	18	(1)
A Night-Piece	19	(1)
Goody Blake and Harry Gill	19	(4)
The Excursion, Book I	23	(22)
From The Recluse	45	(2)
To My Sister	47	(1)
Lines Written in Early Spring	48	(1)
We Are Seven	49	(2)
Anecdote for Fathers	51	(1)
A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill	52	(1)
Simon Lee	53	(2)
Her Eyes Are Wild	55	(3)
The Idiot Boy	58	(12)
The Thorn	70	(7)
Peter Bell	77	(29)
Expostulation and Reply	106	(1)
The Tables Turned	107	(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey	108	(3)
Nutting	111	(2)
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known	113	(1)
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways	113	(1)
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower	114	(1)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	115	(1)
Lucy Gray	115	(2)
The Danish Boy	117	(2)
A Poet's Epitaph	119	(1)
The Two April Mornings	120	(2)
The Fountain	122	(2)
To M. H.	124	(1)
Hart-Leap Well	125	(5)
The Brothers	130	(10)
It Was an April Morning	140	(1)
To Joanna	141	(2)
There Is an Eminence	143	(1)
A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stone	143	(3)
Michael	146	(11)
I Travelled among Unknown Men	157	(1)
To a Young Lady	157	(1)
The Sparrow's Nest	158	(1)
To a Butterfly [Stay near me]	158	(1)
To the Cuckoo	159	(1)
My Heart Leaps Up	160	(1)
When, to the Attractions of the Busy World	160	(2)
To a Butterfly [I've watched you now]	162	(1)
Stanzas Written in My Pocket-Copy of Thomson's Castle of Indolence	163	(2)
1801 [I grieved for Buonaparte]	165	(1)
Resolution and Independence	165	(5)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge	170	(1)
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free	170	(1)
Composed by the Sea-Side, near Calais	170	(1)
Composed in the Valley near Dover	171	(1)
September, 1802, near Dover	171	(1)
Written in London, September, 1802	172	(1)
London, 1802	172	(1)
Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton Hills	172	(1)
Those Words Were Uttered	173	(1)
There Is a Little Unpretending Rill	173	(1)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture	174	(1)
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic	174	(1)
It Is Not to Be Thought of that the Flood	174	(1)
To H. C.	175	(1)
To a Highland Girl	176	(2)
Yarrow Unvisited	178	(1)
To the Men of Kent	179	(1)
Yew-Trees	180	(1)
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room	181	(1)
Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne	181	(1)
Where Lies the Land to Which Yon Ship Must Go?	181	(1)
With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh	182	(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us	182	(1)
Personal Talk	183	(1)
Ode to Duty	184	(2)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	186	(5)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	191	(1)
She Was a Phantom of Delight	192	(1)
The Prelude	193	(174)
Book I	193	(14)
Book II	207	(10)
Book III	217	(14)
Book IV	231	(10)
Book V	241	(14)
Book VI	255	(17)
Book VII	272	(17)
Book VIII	289	(15)
Book IX	304	(13)
Book X	317	(13)
Book XI	330	(10)
Book XII	340	(8)
Book XIII	348	(8)
Book XIV	356	(11)
Steppin Westward	367	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	367	(1)
Character of the Happy Warrior	368	(2)
Power of Music	370	(1)
Star-Gazers	371	(1)
Yes, It Was the Mountain Echo	372	(1)
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle	373	(2)
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland	375	(1)
The White Doe of Rylstone	376	(44)
Characteristics of a Child Three Years Old	420	(1)
Surprised by Joy	420	(1)
The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said	421	(1)
Yarrow Visited	421	(2)
Laodamia	423	(5)
``Weak Is the Will of Man''	428	(1)
November 1	428	(1)
September, 1815	428	(1)
Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty	429	(2)
Sole Listener, Duddon!	431	(1)
After-Thought	431	(1)
Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge	432	(1)
Mutability	432	(1)
To ----- [Look at the fate of summer flowers]	432	(1)
To a Sky-Lark [Ethereal minstrel!]	433	(1)
Scorn Not the Sonnet	433	(1)
If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light from Heaven	434	(1)
Yarrow Revisited	434	(3)
Calm Is the Fragrant Air	437	(1)
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways	438	(1)
Most Sweet It Is with Unuplifted Eyes	438	(1)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg	439	(4)
Prefaces
Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads (1798)	443	(2)
Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800)	445	(20)
Appendix to the Preface (1802)	465	(4)
Preface to The Excursion (1814)	469	(2)
From Essay, Supplementary to the Preface (1815)	471	(11)
From Preface to the Edition of 1815	482	(10)
Select Bibliography	492	(3)
List of Abbreviations	495	(1)
Map of the Lake District	496	(1)
Notes to the Poems	497	(82)
Index of Titles	579