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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8)

William Wordsworth

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 991 pages

This is the second volume of William Wordsworth's poetical works, edited by William Knight, covering poems from 1798 to 1803. It includes 'Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey' and the narrative poem 'Peter Bell'. Listeners can enjoy the reflective, nature-focused verse of a key Romantic poet.

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Opening of the book

Dame Tyson's Cottage
volume 2
edited by
William Knight
1896
Wordsworth's
Poetical Works
Table of Contents
• 1798
• 1799
• 1800
• Poems on the Naming of Places
• 1801
• 1802
• 1803

Edited by William Knight
1896
Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2:
1798
Table of Contents
• Peter Bell
• Lines, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on
revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July
13, 1798
• There was a Boy
• The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice
• Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest
of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of
the Islands at Rydal
Peter Bell: a TaleA
Composed 1798B—Published 1819.
The Poem
What's in a Name?C

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Contents

  1. Wordsworth's Poetical Works
  2. Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2: 1798
  3. Peter Bell: a TaleA
  4. LinesA, composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798B
  5. There was a Boy
  6. The Two Thieves; or, the Last Stage of Avarice
  7. Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a Deserted Quarry, upon one of the IslandsA a
  8. Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2: 1799
  9. 1799
  10. Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
  11. The Simplon PassA
  12. Nutting
  13. Written in Germany, on one of the Coldest Days of the Century
  14. A Poet's Epitaph
  15. "Strange fits of passion have I known"
  16. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
  17. "I travelled among unknown men"
  18. "Three years she grew in sun and shower"
  19. "A slumber did my spirit seal"
  20. Address to the Scholars of the Village School of ——
  21. Matthew
  22. The Two April Mornings
  23. The Fountain
  24. To a Sexton
  25. The Danish Boy
  26. Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
  27. Ruth
  28. Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 2: 1800
  29. 1800
  30. "On Nature's invitation do I come"

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