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Born in April 7, 1770 / Died in April 23, 1850 / United Kingdom / English

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKS

  • An Evening Walk. An Epistle; in verse. Addressed to a young Lady, from the Lakes of the North of England (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793).
  • Descriptive Sketches. In Verse. Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793).
  • Lyrical Ballads, with a few Other Poems, by Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Bristol: Printed by Biggs & Cottle for T. N. Longman, London, 1798; London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, 1798; revised and enlarged edition, 2 volumes, London: Printed for T. N. Longman & O. Rees by Biggs & Co., Bristol, 1800; revised again, London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802; Philadelphia: Printed & sold by James Humphreys, 1802).
  • Poems, in two Volumes (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807).
  • Concerning The Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal to Each Other, and to the Common Enemy, at this Crisis; and Specifically as Affected by the Convention of Cintra (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1809).
  • The Excursion, being a portion of The Recluse, a Poem (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814; New York: C. & S. Francis, 1849).
  • Poems By William Wordsworth, Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author, 2 volumes (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1815).
  • The White Doe of Rylstone: or The Fate of the Nortons. A Poem (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1815).
  • Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816. With Other Short Pieces, Chiefly referring to Recent Public Events (London: Printed by Thomas Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816).
  • A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816).
  • Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (Kendal: Printed by Airey & Bellingham, 1818).
  • Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse (London: Printed by Strahan & Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819).
  • The Waggoner, A Poem. To Which are added, Sonnets (London: Printed by Strahan & Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819).
  • Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, 4 volumes (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820).
  • The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and Other Poems. To which is annexed, A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820).
  • A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in The North of England. Third Edition, (Now first published separately) (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822; revised and enlarged, 1823); revised and enlarged again as A Guide through the District of the Lakes in The North of England (Kendal: Published by Hudson & Nicholson / London: Longman & Co., Moxon, and Whitaker & Co., 1835).
  • Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822).
  • Ecclesiastical Sketches (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822).
  • The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 4 volumes (Boston: Published by Cummings & Hilliard, printed by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1824).
  • The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (5 volumes, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827; revised edition, 4 volumes, London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832).
  • The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth [pirated edition] (Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1828).
  • Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Esq. Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons, edited by Joseph Hine (London: Moxon, 1831).
  • Yarrow Revisited, And Other Poems (London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835; Boston: J. Monroe & Co, 1835; New York: R. Bartlett & S. Raynor, 1835).
  • The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (6 volumes, London: Moxon, 1836, 1837; enlarged, 7 volumes, 1842; enlarged again, 8 volumes, 1851).
  • The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by Henry Reed (Philadelphia: J. Kay, Jun., and Brother / Boston: J. Munroe, 1837).
  • The Sonnets of William Wordsworth (London: Edward Moxon, 1838).
  • Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, A Tragedy (London: Edward Moxon, 1842).
  • Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two Letters Reprinted from The Morning Post. Revised, with Additions (Kendal: Printed by Branthwaite & Son, 1845; London: Whittaker & Co. and Edward Moxon / Kendal: R. Branthwaite & Son, 1845).
  • The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate (London: Moxon, 1845).
  • The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, 6 volumes (London: Moxon, 1849, 1850).
  • The Prelude, Or Growth of a Poet's Mind, An Autobiographical Poem (London: Moxon, 1850; New York: D. Appleton / Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1850).
  • The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, edited by Reverend Alexander B. Grosart (London: Moxon, 1876; facsimile, New York: AMS Press, 1967).
  • The Recluse ["Home at Grasmere"] (London & New York: Macmillan, 1888).
Editions
  • Poems of Wordsworth, chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold (London & New York: Macmillan, 1879).
  • Wordsworth's Literary Criticism, edited by Nowell C. Smith (London: H. Frowde, 1905).
  • The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 5 volumes, edited by Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940-1949; volumes 2 and 3 revised, 1952, 1954).
  • A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England, introduction by William Merchant (London: Hart-Davis, 1951).
  • The Political Tracts of Wordsworth, Coleridge & Shelley, edited by R. J. White (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953).
  • William Wordsworth: Selected Poems and Prefaces, edited by Jack Stillinger (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
  • Literary Criticism of William Wordsworth, edited by Paul M. Zall (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966).
  • The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, 3 volumes, edited by W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974).
  • The Cornell Wordsworth, 14 volumes to date, general editor, Stephen M. Parrish (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975- ).
  • The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton, 1979).
  • William Wordsworth: The Poems, 2 volumes, edited by John O. Hayden (Harmondsworth: Penguin / New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
  • The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, edited by Paul D. Sheats (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982)—revision of the 1904 Cambridge Wordsworth.
  • William Wordsworth, edited by Stephen Gill, Oxford Author Series (London: Oxford University Press, 1984).
OTHER
  • Joseph Wilkinson, Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, includes an introduction by Wordsworth (London: Published for Wilkinson by R. Ackermann, 1810).
LETTERS
  • The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1787-1805, 1 volume, edited by Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935); The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years, 2 volumes, edited by de Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937); The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Later Years, edited by de Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939); revised and enlarged by Chester L. Shaver, Mary Moorman, and Alan G. Hill as The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 5 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967-1988).
  • The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth, edited by Beth Darlington (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981).
  • The Letters of William Wordsworth: A New Selection, edited by Hill (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).