William Wordsworth Audio Books

All good poetry, wrote Wordsworth, is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic Poets. With a dynamic spirit...

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time.

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.

Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth published the first version of the poem in 1798, but continued to work on it for the rest of his life.

The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem is a long poem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814.

"All good poetry," wrote Wordsworth, "is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" and this was to be one of the hallmarks of the Romantic Poets.

For his poetry, Wordsworth chose incidents and situations from common life to illustrate the essential passions of the heart.

Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 25 miles through varied scenery before disappearing into the sands between Millom and Barrow-in-Furness.

In the prefatory advertisement to the First Edition of the Prelude, 1850, it is stated that that poem was designed to be introductory to the Recluse, and that the Recluse.