The most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of the great Romantic poet. Introduced by a noted Wordsworth scholar, this edition includes poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade', a generous selection from his later poems, extracts from Guide to the Lakes, and the political prose of the Convention of Cintra.

• List of Illustrations


• Introduction


• Chronology


• A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering


• FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798)


• FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800)


• OTHER POEMS 1798-1800


• FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807)


• OTHER POEMS 1800-1808


• THE PRELUDE (1805)


• FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809)


• FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810)


• FROM THE EXCURSION (1814)


• FROM POEMS (1815)


• FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816)


• FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820)


• FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820)


• OTHER POEMS 1815-1846


• Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads


• Notes


• Further Reading


• Index of Titles and First Lines

Stephen Gill is retired Professor of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.