Professor Hayden presents the poetry in freshly edited texts and his notes to each poem incorporate summaries of significant criticism. Appedices contain Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) and the Preface to Poems (1815), with Essay, Supplementary
This selection is representative of the wide range of Wordsworth's poetic achievement. As well as the best of the shorter poems, from the revolutionary Lyrical Ballards and from Poems 1807
Here's the one planes you missed the tickets ripped away and the lands left unexplored Here's to the boxes left unopened the keys thrown away and the treasures left untouched Here's to the 2am thoughts the songs of what ifs and the chances I missed
This book, actually titled, House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, is divided into five thematic sections. I really liked the first two and enjoyed the third, but with fewer Post-It flags. The last two, not so much. Maxine Kumin writes about the ordinary
The eleven essays specially written for this book are presented as a contribution to the renewed evaluation of Hardy's poetry, as part of areappraisal which must produce a more satisfying view of his complex, large, experimental, odd, rich, sometimes frustrating, compelling body of poems than it has often in the past managed to call forth from his crtics.