Prelude and Other Poems (Alma)

William Wordsworth`s verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as `I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud` and `She Was a Phantom of Delight`. Alongside his more personal and introspective compositions, poems such as `Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey`, `She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways` and `The Idiot Boy` demonstrate, in an era of political and social ferment, the manner in which Wordsworth, together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forged a revolutionary new poetic style through the publication of Lyrical Ballads - one that embraced the vernacular and subjects previously deemed unworthy of poetry - and thus changed the literary landscape of England for ever.