Description
| Product ID: | 9781529011890 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | Selected Poems |
| Authors: | Author: William Wordsworth |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Cumbria, c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth’s greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness. <p>A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionized poetry. <br><br>Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an introduction by Peter Harness.<br><br><i>Selected Poems</i> brings together some of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works, including an extract from his magnus opus, <i>The Prelude,</i> alongside shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, ‘To a Skylark’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’. Wordsworth’s poems, often written at his home in Grasmere in the beautiful English Lake District, are lyrical evocations of nature and of spirituality. They have a force and clarity of language akin to everyday speech which was truly groundbreaking.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-05 |
