Essential Wordsworth
By: selected and with an introduction by Seamus Heaney
Contributors: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-
Series: The Essential poets -- v. 6; Essential poets (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 6
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Work titles: Poems.
Description: " Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed, it is not until Yeats that we encounter another poet in whom emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness, artistic self-knowledge and bardic representativeness are so truly and responsibly combined. He is an indispensable figure in the evolution of modern, a finder and keeper of the self as subject, a theorist and apologist whose preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802 remains definitive."--Publisher's website.