Selected Poems and Prefaces,9780395051795

Selected Poems and Prefaces

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ISBN13: 9780395051795
ISBN10: 0395051797
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1964-01-02
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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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

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