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The Major Works

William Wordsworth

Paperback | Pages: 784 pages

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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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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.

Mehhhhhh...I only read the Prelude. Once again, I learned how immature and impatient I am as a reader and how I don't appreciate nice things. I wish I was grownup enough to enjoy hearing about someone wandering around and around in nature and becoming more and more self-aware. Well, no, I don't wish that, but it probably would have helped.I don't think I would have liked to have known Wordsworth. Not that there's anything wrong with him or that I dislike him on a moral level, but I feel like our

3.5 stars! I read this one for school and definitely did not read all the poems, only the ones I was assigned to. Therefore it's very hard to rate and judge his entire works. I did really enjoy some of the poems, however others I thought were average or too long etc. Overall I really appreciate Wordsworth's works and his talent for Romantic poetry.

WW's poetry is remarkable, vivid and animated most of the times. He was not a simple personality to fit within the context of a limited timeframe, ideology or school of poetry. His words create something that is permanent and resonates for long within the minds of the readers. However, at times, the poems become transparent and you can actually see it the way you want - or just ignore it and think on your own about life and death and the ultimate truth. Powerful - if in one word you are asked to

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 60 Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come"Ode on Intimations of Immortality



Of course, I have no business rating Wordsworth. But he is so sad, so unrelentingly, depressingly sad, poem after poem. I suppose that in that day, he was regarded as serious, but today, to a citizen of this modern world in this country, he is not serious - he needs help. Maybe operating and writing on the verge of what we might call clinical depression was more natural then. I don't know and I have no right to guess. It's interesting, though. How many of those old characters seemed to take life