The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

Wordsworth's
Poetical Works

volume 1
edited by
William Knight
1896

[Table of Contents]

• [Preface]

• [Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of leaving School]
• [Written in very Early Youth]
• [An Evening Walk]
• [Lines written while Sailing in a Boat at Evening]
• [Remembrance of Collins]
• [Descriptive Sketches taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps]
• [Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain]
• [Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree, which stands near the lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, commanding a beautiful prospect ]
• [The Borderers]
• [The Reverie of Poor Susan]
• [1798: A Night Piece]
• [We are Seven]
• [Anecdote for Fathers]
• ["A whirl-blast from behind the hill" ]
• [The Thorn]
• [Goody Blake and Harry Gill]
• [Her Eyes are Wild]
• [Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman]
• [Lines written in Early Spring]
• [To my Sister]
• [Expostulation and Reply]
• [The Tables Turned]
• [The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman]
• [The Last of the Flock]
• [The Idiot Boy]
• [The Old Cumberland Beggar]
• [Animal Tranquillity and Decay ]

• [Appendix I]
• [Appendix II]
• [Appendix III]
• [Appendix IV]
• [Appendix V]
• [Appendix VI]
• [Appendix VII]
• [Appendix VIII]

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[Preface]

During the decade between 1879 and 1889 I was engaged in a detailed study of Wordsworth; and, amongst other things, edited a library edition of his Poetical Works in eight volumes, including the "Prefaces" and "Appendices" to his Poems, and a few others of his Prose Works, such as his