100 Selected Poems

Wordsworth made ordinary landscape and ordinary speech the proper material of poetry, and this hundred-poem selection shows how thoroughly that argument was won. The collection brings together the lyrics that defined English Romanticism: walks through the Lake District, encounters with solitary figures, recollections of early childhood and the long reflective passages on memory and loss. His diction avoids ornament, which keeps the poems open to anyone meeting Romantic verse for the first time, while the underlying ideas about nature and the growth of the mind repay much closer study. A closer look: • A hundred poems covering the best known Romantic lyrics and reflective pieces • The Lake District landscape working as both setting and subject • Poems on childhood, memory and the mind's growth over a lifetime • Accessible language that suits readers new to nineteenth-century verse Suited to students of Romanticism, poetry readers and general collectors of English classics, available at Boipoka.