Shorter Poems, 1807-1820

by William Wordsworth

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704 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although Wordsworth did his best work before 1807 (or at least 1815), he’s still a superb poet. His voice is familiar: liberty and odes, Lakes and pastoral, loss and elegy.