A Companion To William Wordsworth ( Vol. 1 ) (Hardcover)  | Released: 2003

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on Wordsworth, highlighting discussions on most of the different dimensions of the poetas a critic, a poetic theorist, a great lover of nature, a humanist, and as a philosopher. In this book, twelve most important poems of the poet, his five Lucy' poems and also his six sonnets have been thoroughly discussed, and the texts of all the 23 poems have been given. In the three Appendices, the texts of Wordsworths three most important literary essaysPreface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), Appendix on Poetic Diction, and Essay Supplementary to the Prefacehave been given for the readers ready references. The author has shunned all pedantry anywhere in the book, his primary objective being introduction of Wordsworth to the generality of readers. References have always been cited wherever quotations from critics books have been appropriated.Table of Contents: Volume 1Part 1 1. Life and WorksPart 22. Twelve Select Poems of Wordsworth; (i) Tintern Abbey; (ii) The Thorn; (iii) A Night-Piece; (iv) The Simplon Pass; (v) Michael; (vi) Resolution and Independence; (vii) Ode: Intimations of Immortality; (viii) Elegiac Stanzas; (ix) Ode to Duty; (x) Solitary Reaper; (xi) She was a phantom of delight; (xii) Laodamia Part 33. The five Lucy Poems of Wordsworth; (i) Strange fits of passion have I known; (ii) Three years she grew in sun and shower; (iii) I travelled among unknown men; (iv) She dwelt among the untrodden ways; (v) A slumber did my spirit sealPart 4 4. Six Select Sonnets of Wordsworth; (i) Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802; (ii) The world is too much with us; (iii) It is a beautious evening, calm and free; (iv) Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour; (v) Nuns fret not at their convents narrow room; (vi) Scorn not the sonnet Part 55. Wordsworth As a Romantic Poet; 6. Wordswoths Theory of Poetry; 7. Wordsworth as a Poet of Nature