The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Edited by William Knight
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Volume 1 of 8
Author: (Edited by William Knight)
Release Date: November 23, 2003 [EBook #10219]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POETRY OF WORDSWORTH ***
Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Clytie Siddall and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team.
THE POETICAL WORKS
OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
EDITED BY
WILLIAM KNIGHT
VOL. I
1896
CONTENTS
Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of
leaving School
Written in very Early Youth
An Evening Walk
Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening
Remembrance of Collins
Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps
Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the lake of
Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful
prospect
The Borderers
The Reverie of Poor Susan
1798
A Night Piece
We are Seven
Anecdote for Fathers
"A whirl-blast from behind the hill"
The Thorn
Goody Blake and Harry Gill
Her Eyes are Wild
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman
Lines written in Early Spring
To my Sister
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
The Last of the Flock
The Idiot Boy
The Old Cumberland Beggar
Animal Tranquillity and Decay
APPENDIX I.
APPENDIX II.
APPENDIX III.
APPENDIX IV.
APPENDIX V.
APPENDIX VI.
APPENDIX VII.
APPENDIX VIII.
PREFACE
During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed
study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition
of his Poetical Works in eight volumes, including the "Prefaces" and
"Appendices" to his Poems, and a few others of his Prose Works, such as
his 'Description of the Scener
|