The Prelude The Recluse & The Excursion

Read & Co. presents Wordworths collected works; The Prelude The Recluse and The Excursion together in one volume with additional biographical excerpts by Anna Maria Hall Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle. A fantastic collection of Wordsworths best poetry not to be missed by fans and collectors of his wonderful work. The Prelude a poem written in blank verse is Wordsworths autobiographical magnum opus within which he offers the reader a plethora of personal details about his life. He began writing when he was just 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life. Changed and expanded many times it was originally conceived as an introduction to The Recluse an unfinished work. The Excursion is the second and only completed part of Wordsworths The Recluse. It revolves around three central figures: the Solitary who has lived through the horrors and hopes of the French Revolution; the Pastor to whom a third of the poem is dedicated; and the Wanderer. The Recluse was to be Wordsworth s three-part masterpiece but tragically remains uncompleted. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 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. He was also notably poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850. Other notable works by this author include: The Tables Turned The Thorn and Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.