THE

ENGLISH POETS

SELECTIONS

WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS

BY VARIOUS WRITERS

AND A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

EDITED BY

THOMAS HUMPHRY WARD, M.A.

Late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford

VOL. IV

WORDSWORTH to ROSSETTI

Second Edition, Revised

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

1883

[All rights reserved]

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)

The Dean of St. Paul's

The Reverie of Poor Susan

Expostulation and Reply

The Tables Turned

Lines composed near Tintern Abbey

Lines written in Early Spring

A Poet's Epitaph

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude

Lucy

The Two April Mornings

The Fountain. A Conversation

There was a Boy

Influence of Natural Objects in calling forth and strengthening the

Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth

The Green Linnet

Yew Trees

To a Highland Girl

The Solitary Reaper.

Yarrow Unvisited

To the Cuckoo

At the Grave of Burns

Thoughts suggested the day following

She was a Phantom'

'I wandered lonely'

Ode to Duty

The Nightingale

The Mountain Echo.

Ode. Intimations of Immortality

Laodamia .

To [Miss Blackett) on her first Ascent to the Summit of Hel-

vellyn

Evening Voluntary

Extracts from the Prelude :

[Apparition on the Lake]

[Morning after the Ball]

[Defile of Gondo]

(Ascent of Snowdon] .

Extracts from the Excursion :

[Twin Peaks of the Valley]

[Mist opening in the Hills]

[Among the Mountains]

i The Moon among Trees]

[The Sea Shell]

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