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Discussing prose written by poets, Joseph Brodsky has remarked, “the tradition of dividing literature into poetry and prose dates from the beginnings of prose, since it was only in prose that such a distinction could be made.” This insight is worth bearing in mind when considering the various prose works of the poet William Wordsworth. For Wordsworth poetic composition was a primary mode of expression; prose was secondary. Wordsworth seems to have written prose mostly in order to find a structure for his poetic beliefs and political enthusiasms. Over the course of a prolific poetic career, in fact, Wordsworth produced little prose, though he did compose two works of lasting general interest, one on poetics—“Preface to Lyrical Ballads”—and the other on the landscape of his native region—his tourist handbook, A Guide through the District of the Lakes, which retains more than a local interest as geographical background to his poems...
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Poems By William Wordsworth
- Character of the Happy Warrior
- A Complaint
- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
- Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
- Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
- The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
- The Green Linnet
- I Travelled among Unknown Men
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
- Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
- It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
- It is not to be Thought of
- Laodamia
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
- London, 1802
- Most Sweet it is
- Mutability
- November, 1806
- Nutting
- October, 1803
- Ode to Duty
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
- On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
- The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
- A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School
- from The Prelude: Book 1: Childhood and School-time
- from The Prelude: Book 2: School-time (Continued)
- Resolution and Independence
- The Reverie of Poor Susan
- Scorn not the Sonnet
- September, 1819
- She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
- She Was a Phantom of Delight
- Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
- The Simplon Pass
- A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
- The Solitary Reaper
- Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
- Sonnets from The River Duddon: After-Thought
- The Tables Turned
- There was a Boy
- Three Years She Grew
- To a Highland Girl
- To a Skylark
- To the Cuckoo
- The Virgin
- The World Is Too Much With Us
- Written in London. September, 1802
- Yarrow Revisited
- Yarrow Visited. September, 1814
- Yarrow Unvisited
- Surprised by Joy
- "Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant"
- Lines Written in Early Spring
- We Are Seven
- Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room
- The Thorn
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