Poems of William Wordsworth,The: Collected Reading Texts from The Cornell Wordsworth, All Volumes

Jared Curtis’s magnificent three-volume edition presents Wordsworth's verse in reading texts chosen from the

twenty-one volumes of the Cornell Wordsworth. Volume 1 includes Adventures on Salisbury Plain, The

Borderers, the two-part Prelude, The Ruined Cottage, and Home at Grasmere – along with his publications

between 1797 and 1807, namely An Evening Walk, Descriptive Sketches, Lyrical Ballads, Peter Bell, and

Poems, in Two Volumes. In Volume 2 are the thirteen-book Prelude, Benjamin the Waggoner, The Tuft of

Primroses and other poems composed for the unfinished Recluse, The Excursion, The White Doe, and

translations from Chaucer and Virgil. In Volume 3 are the shorter poems composed between 1807 and 1820,

the fourteen-book Prelude, all eight sonnet series, including The River Duddon, Ecclesiastical Sketches.

Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, poems from Scotland and Italy in 1833 and 1837, and Last Poems: 1821-

1850. Volume 3 may surprise you: late Wordsworth stock is on the rise!