William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an influential English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age of English literature with the 1798 joint publication of Lyrical Ballads. He was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
For the first time Wordsworth's poems are presented in order of composition and in texts in which their original identity is restored. A selection of the poet's critical writing is added to a generous selection of the poetry which includes the lon... SEE MORE