William Wordsworth’s description of poetry as”the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” isexemplified by the vivid use of imagery and sensoryexperience in his verse.

His childhood in Cumbria imbued the poet with adeep love of nature; and his youthful interest inpolitics inspired a passion for democracy and ahatred of tyranny. These qualities, together withthose of spiritual and epistemological speculation,dominate his poetical and prose writings.

This collection features many of Wordsworth’smost notable poems, including “Lines Composed aFew Miles above Tintern Abbey”, “Ode: Intimationson Immortality”, and “Composed upon WestminsterBridge”, and is a perfect introduction to the worksof one of the founding fathers of EnglishRomantic poetry.