Poems of William Wordsworth, The: Collected Reading Texts from The Cornell Wordsworth, Volume I

Here is the poetry in the form the poet gave it when first completed, either in its manuscript state or in a published book. Each volume includes Wordsworth's own notes published with his poems during his lifetime and a few editorial explanations where appropriate.



The first volume includes his earliest work, composed while a school boy and during and after his time at university, 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, andPoems, in Two Volumes.