The William Wordsworth Page
( 1770-1850 )
Major Works
Penguin has published an ample amount of Wordsworth's poetry and prose works in relatively inexpensive editions. The Cornell Wordsworth has been under way since 1975, but it is hardly suited to the purposes of a beginning student.
An Evening Walk ( 1793 ).
Descriptive Sketches Taken During a Tour in the Alps ( 1793 ).
Lyrical Ballads ( 1798; 1800; 1802; 1805 ). Collaborative work with Coleridge.
Poems ( 1807 ).
The Excursion ( 1814 ).
The White Doe of Rylstone ( 1815 ).
Peter Bell ( 1819 ).
The Waggoner ( 1819 ).
Poems ( 1842 ).
The Prelude; or, The Growth of a Poet's Mind ( 1850 ). The culmination of a work begun fifty years before, it was first published together with the 1805 version in 1926. See The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 . Edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. Norton, 1979.
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Edited by E. de Selincourt. Oxford, 1935-1939. This work is has been under revision since 1967
The Letters of William Wordsworth: A New Selection. Edited by Alan G. Hill. Oxford, 1985.
The Complete Poetical Works by William Wordsworth. From Bartleby at Columbia University.
About Wordsworth
Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life. Oxford, 1989.
The Wordsworth Trust: Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum. Pictures and information about Wordsworth's home in Grasmere. More.
A Wordsworth Page. Poems, prose works, biographical sketch, criticism. Good site.
Wordsworth Criticism from Internet Public Library.
Picture of Tintern Abbey
Web Concordance to Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
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