A delightful pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth’s poetry on flowers. This volume brings Wordsworth’s vivid nature imagery to life, featuring much-loved poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ or ‘Daffodils’.
This beautiful collection of Wordsworth’s poetry is drawn together by a common theme of flowers and plant life. The poems give inspiring descriptions of nature and are intertwined with the poet’s thoughts and experiences of life, including his friendships, relationships and religious beliefs.
Included in this volume are poems such as:
– ‘To the Daisy’– ‘To the Small Celadine’
– ‘To the Waterfall and the Eglantine’
– ‘The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral’
– ‘Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell’
– ‘Though the Bold Wings of Poesy Affect’
From the specialist poetry imprint, Ragged Hand, Read & Co. has proudly republished Wordsworth’s Poetry on Flowers in this beautiful small edition, perfect for on-the-go reading. Complete with an introductory excerpt from Thomas Carlyle’s 1881 Reminiscences, this volume is not to be missed by nature lovers or collectors of Wordsworth’s work.
Table des matières
William Wordsworth
1. To the Daisy
2. To the Same Flower
3. To the Small Celadine
4. To the Same Flower
5. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, or Daffodils
6. The Waterfall and the Eglantine
7. The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral
8. Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell
9. A Flower Garden. At Coleorton Hall, Liecester
10. Though the Bold Wings of Poesy Affect
11. The Egyptian Maid or, The Romance of the Water-Lily
12. Flowers on the Top of the Pillars at the Entrance of a Cave
13. Foresight
14. Adiue, Rydalian Laurels! That Have Grown
A propos de l’auteur
William Wordsworth (1770 –1850) was born in Cockermouth, England, and was part of the famous Lake Poets group. Wordsworth was the United Kingdom’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. He is best-known for his collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, that he wrote and published with his friend and fellow Lake Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The seminal collection helped to set England’s Romantic Era in motion.
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