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Principal Works

*all are poetry unless otherwise noted

An Evening Walk. London: J. Johnson, 1793.

Descriptive Sketches. London: J. Johnson, 1793.

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published anonymously). Bristol: T. N. Longman, 1798; London: J. & A. Arch, 1798. Enlarged ed., 2 vol., London: Longman & Rees, 1800. Enlarged edition contains "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal."

Poems in Two Volumes. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807. Contains "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "My heart leaps up when I behold," and "The World Is Too Much with Us."

Concerning the Convention of Cintra (political commentary). London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1809.

The Excursion. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814.

Poems. 2 vol. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1815.

The White Doe of Rylstone. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1815.

Thanksgiving Ode. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816.

A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (prose). London: Longman, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816.

Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland (political commentary). Kendal: Airey & Bellingham, 1818.

Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819.

The Waggoner. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819.

Miscellaneous Poems. 4 vol. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820.

The River Duddon. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820.

A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in the North of England (prose). London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822. Revised and enlarged ed., 1823. Revised and enlarged as A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England, Kendal: Hudson & Nicholson, London: Longman & Co., 1835.

Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822.

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822. Contains "Mutability."

Poetical Works. 5 vol. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827.

Yarrow Revisited. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835.

The Poetical Works. 6 vol. London: Moxon, 1836.

The Sonnets. London: Edward Moxon, 1838.

Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years, Including The Borderers, a Tragedy. London: Edward Moxon, 1842.

Kendal and Windermere Railway (prose). Kendal: Branthwaite, 1845.

The Poems. London: Moxon, 1845.

The Poetical Works. 6 vol. London: Moxon, 1849.

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem. London: Moxon, 1850.

The Recluse. London and New York: Macmillan, 1888.

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Selected Modern Editions

The Prelude: Text of 1805. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt. Oxford University Press, 1933.

The Poetical Works. 5 vol. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire. Oxford University Press, 1940-49.

Lyrical Ballads: The Text of the 1798 Edition with the Additional 1800 Poems and the Prefaces (with Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Ed. R. L. Brett and A. R. Jones. London: Methuen, 1963.

The Prose Works. 3 vol. Ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser. Oxford University Press, 1974.

The Cornell Wordsworth. 14 vol., ongoing. General ed. Stephen M. Parrish. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.

The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850. Ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill. New York: Norton, 1979.

William Wordsworth. Ed. Stephen Gill. Oxford Author Series. Oxford University Press, 1984.

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Selected Biography

Stephen Gill. William Wordsworth: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1989.

George McLean Harper. William Wordsworth: His Life, Works, and Influence. 2 vol. London: Murray, 1916.

Emile Legouis. The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1790-1798. Tr. J. W. Matthews. London: Dent, 1897.

----------. William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon. London: Dent, 1922.

Mary Moorman. William Wordsworth: A Biography. 2 vol. Oxford University Press, 1957.

Christopher Wordsworth. Memoirs of William Wordsworth. 2 vol. London: Moxon, 1851.

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Selected Criticism

David Ferry. The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth's Major Poems. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1959.

Geoffrey Hartman. Wordsworth's Poetry: 1787-1814. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

David Perkins. Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Jonathan Wordsworth. The Music of Humanity. Oxford University Press, 1969.

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