Author:William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature

William Wordsworth

Works

Poetry

• Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
• Lyrical ballads (1800), in 2 vols.
• Poems (1807), in 2 vols.
• The Excursion (1814)
• Poems including Lyrical Ballads, and the miscellaneous pieces of the author. With additional poems, a new preface, and a supplementary essay (1815), in 2 vols.

Volume I

Volume II

• The white doe of Rylstone; or, the fate of the Nortons (1815) (external scan)
• Peter Bell: A tale in verse (1819)
• The River Duddon, a series of sonnets (1820)
• The Prelude (1850)
• The Recluse (1888)

Other poetry

• Afterthought
• Composed Upon An Evening of Extraordinary Splendor and Beauty
• Dion
• To The Cuckoo (Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard)
• Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg
• In London, September, 1802
• Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
• Most sweet it is
• Mutability
• Near Dover, September, 1802
• Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
• "The Primrose of the Rock" in Littell's Living Age, 169 (2182)
• Scorn Not the Sonnet
• "Surprised by Joy, Impatient as the Wind" in Littell's Living Age, 144 (1865)
• The Trosachs
• Why Art Thou Silent!

Orations

• Speech on Copyright, 1840

Letters

• "Letters from Wm. Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart" in Letters from the Lake poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, to Daniel Stuart, editor of the Morning post and the Courier, 1800-1838 (external scan)

Works about Wordsworth

• "William Wordsworth", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Wordsworth, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Wordsworth, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Wordsworth, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mr. Wordsworth," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 231−250), London: Henry Colburn (1825)
• Wordsworth, by John Greenleaf Whittier.
• "Wordsworth's Youth" in Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1898)
• "Breathless We Strive", a poem by Florence Earle Coates
• The Fighting Coward (1924 film), shows parts of his poems in film scenes

Parodies of Wordsworth

• Poetic Lamentation on the Insufficiency of Steam Locomotion in the Lake District by J.K.S.
• A Sonnet by J.K.S.