Essential Wordsworth

From the introduction by Seamus Heaney:

Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed, it is not until Yeats that we encounter another poet in whom emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness, artistic self-knowledge and bardic representativeness are so truly and responsibly combined.

He is an indispensable figure in the evolution of modern, a finder and keeper of the self as subject, a theorist and apologist whose preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 remains definitive.

Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/14/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.16h x 4.52w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780060888619