This beautiful pocket-sized volume is a compilation of William Wordsworth’s poetry on birds. The collection includes lyrical, melancholic poems alongside whimsical pieces that will make readers’ heart’s soar.
With themes of freedom, hope and love in The Book of Birds Wordsworth uses darker imagery to express his innermost thoughts and views of the world through the beautiful imagery of birds. This carefully curated book collates some of the poet’s most inspiring work as well as a few of his seminal pieces.
This collection includes fantastic poems such as:
– The Green Linnet– To a Sky-lark, 1807
– To the Cuckoo
– The Sparrow’s Nest
– A Wren’s Nest
– Animal Tranquillity and Decay
– The Contrast – The Parrot and the Wren
Proudly republished by Read & Co. Books Ragged Hand, Wordsworth’s Poetry on Birds is now in a new compact, pocket-sized edition. This collection is completed by an introductory excerpt from Reminiscences, 1881, by Thomas Carlyle, and would make the perfect gift for lovers of birds and collectors of Wordsworth’s poetry.
İçerik tablosu
William Wordsworth
1. The Green Linnet
2. To A Sky-Lark, 1807
3. To A Sky-Lark, 1827
4. To the Cuckoo
5. The Sparrow’s Nest
6. A Wren’s Nest
7. Animal Tranquility and Decay. A Sketch
8. Resolution and Independence
9. The Contrast – The Parrot and the Wren
10. Suggested by a Picture of the Bird of Paradise
11. Poor Robin
12. To a Redbreast – In Sickness
13. The Redbreast
14. The Redbreast and the Butterfly
15. Hark! ‘Tis the Thrush, Undaunted, Undeprest
16. The Dunolly Eagle
17. Eagles
Yazar hakkında
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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