William Wordsworth

The Prelude, Tintern Abbey, the daffodils — Wordsworth made the ordinary and the remembered into the great subjects of Romantic poetry.

The poet of nature and memory

In this collection

• There was a Boy
• The Last of the Flock
• The Idle Shepherd-Boys
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• Michael
• Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree, which Stands Near the Lake of Estwaithe, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect
• Song for the Wandering Jew
• The Two April Mornings
• Anecdote for Fathers
• Lines Written with a Pencil Upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an out-House) on the Island at Grasmere
• A Poet's Epitaph
• The Female Vagrant
• The Old Cumberland Beggar
• We are Seven
• Remembrance of Collins
• The Brothers
• The Idiot Boy
• The Childless Father
• Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House, and Sent by my Little Boy to the Person to whom they are Addressed
• The Fountain
• A Whirl-Blast from Behind the Hill
• She Dwelt Among Th' Untrodden Ways
• Poor Susan
• The Mad Mother
• Three Years she Grew in Sun and Shower
• The Thorn
• Lines Written on a Tablet in a School
• The Two Thieves
• The Ancient Mariner
• To a Sexton

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