The Book of Nature – Wordsworth’s Poetry on Nature is a sublime collection of the best nature poetry by poet-laureate William Wordsworth, housed in a convenient pocket-sized edition.
Along with many other Romantic poets of the time, the theme of nature features heavily in the work of Wordsworth – to him, it represented a living thing, a sublime teacher-god that contained all beauty and divine truth. Wordsworth expresses his view on the natural world through the poetry in this charming collection while articulating his relationship with nature and its essential connection with human beings.
Poems featured in this collection include:– Influence of Natural Objects
– Lines Written in Early Spring
– My Heart Leaps Up
– Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
– To the Clouds
Carefully curated by Read & Co. Books, this collection of twenty-one poems also features an introductory excerpt on William Wordsworth by Thomas Carlyle from his 1881 work Reminiscences. The perfect gift for poetry readers and nature lovers alike, this beautiful pocket edition is a wonderful book of posey for those who love reading on the go.
Inhoudsopgave
William Wordsworth
1. Influence of Natural Objects
2. Lines Written While Sailing in a Boat at Evening
3. At Evening
4. A Night-Piece
5. Nutting
6. Lines Written in Early Spring
7. My Heart Leaps Up
8. Yew-Trees
9. Sonnets from the River Duddon: After-Thought
10. Admonition
11. Sonnets – Beloved Vale! I Said, When I Shall Con
12. It is a Beautiful Evening, Calm and Free
13. Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel
14. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
15. Ode
16. It was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear
17. Fresh and Clear
18. There is an Eminence
19. On the Banks of a Rocky Stream
20. To the Clouds
21. To the Moon
22. Composed at Rydal on May Morning
23. Composed by the Sea-Shore
24. Bibliography
Over de 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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