Remembering Wordsworth - Essays and Extracts on the Life and Work of the Great Poet

Remembering Wordsworth is a fantastic collection of essays and other assorted writings by various authors discussing the life and work of this seminal poet not to be missed by lovers of poetry and those with an interest Wordsworth''s life both public and private. Contents include: William Wordsworth by Hattie Tyng Griswold WM. Wordsworth by Elbert Hubbard Wordsworths Poetry Delivered Extempore At Manchester by George Macdonald In Wordsworth''s Country by John Burroughs William Wordsworth by Henry Cabot Lodge & Francis W. Halsey Wordsworth by Walter Horatio Pater The English Lakes by F. W. H. Myers Wordsworth by John Morley etc. William Wordsworth (17701850) was an English Romantic poet famous for helping to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798) which he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His best known work is perhaps The Prelude a semi-autobiographical poem from his early years which was changed and expanded many times throughout his life. He was poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850.