This Literature Unit Is:

William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry
by William Wordsworth

Introduction

Matthew Arnold wrote, "Wordsworth's poetry, when he is at his best, is inevitable, as inevitable as Nature herself." Wordsworth loved nature, loved the mountains and loved to walk. He was friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and became the Poet Laureate in England in 1843.

Edition I Use: The Penguin Poetry Library
ISBN #: 0-14-058661-X / $9.95 / 311 pages
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Unit Sections(also at left):

Poems I Suggest Reading for this Unit Are (you should be able to find these in any good Wordsworth book of poetry or on the internet):

The Baker's Cart/pg. 1—Old Man Travelling/pg. 2—Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree/pg. 3—Goody Blake and Harry Gill/pg. 30—Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House/pg. 34—"A whirl-blast from behind the hill"/pg. 45—Anecdote for Fathers/pg. 62—Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey/pg. 76—"My heart leaps up when I behold"/pg. 172—To the Daisy("In youth")/pg. 176—"These chairs they have no words to utter"/pg. 180—"I grieved for Buonaparte"/pg. 192—"The world is too much with us"/pg. 194—"The Sun has long been set"/pg. 195—Composed upon Westminster Bridge/pg. 199—"Great Men have been among us"/pg. 200—London, 1802/pg. 200—"Nuns fret not at their Convent's narrow room"/pg. 201—Ode to Duty/pg. 205—Ode("Intimations of Immortality")/pg. 207—"I wandered lonely as a cloud"/pg. 214—November, 1806/pg. 249—"Surprized by Joy"/pg. 253—The River Duddon. Conclusion/pg. 264