The Book of Flowers: Wordsworth's Poetry on Flowers

By William Wordsworth

A delightful pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth’s poetry on flowers. This volume brings Wordsworth’s vivid nature imagery to life, featuring much-loved poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ or ‘Daffodils’.

This beautiful collection of Wordsworth’s poetry is drawn together by a common theme of flowers and plant life. The poems give inspiring descriptions of nature and are intertwined with the poet’s thoughts and experiences of life, including his friendships, relationships and religious beliefs.

Included in this volume are poems such as:

- ‘To the Daisy’

- ‘To the Small Celadine’

- ‘To the Waterfall and the Eglantine’

- ‘The Oak and the Broom. A Pastoral’

- ‘Not Love, Not War, Nor the Tumultuous Swell’

- ‘Though the Bold Wings of Poesy Affect’

From the specialist poetry imprint, Ragged Hand, Read & Co. has proudly republished Wordsworth’s Poetry on Flowers in this beautiful small edition, perfect for on-the-go reading. Complete with an introductory excerpt from Thomas Carlyle’s 1881 Reminiscences, this volume is not to be missed by nature lovers or collectors of Wordsworth’s work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ragged Hand - Read & Co.
• Release date: Feb 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781528789400

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.

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THE BOOK

OF FLOWERS

WORDSWORTH'S

POETRY ON FLOWERS

By

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Copyright © 2020 Ragged Hand

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an imprint of Read & Co. 

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Contents

William Wordsworth

TO THE DAISY.

TO THE SAME FLOWER.

TO THE SMALL CELANDINE.

TO THE SAME FLOWER.

I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD.

OR, DAFFODILS.

THE WATERFALL AND THE EGLANTINE.

THE OAK AND THE BROOM.

A PASTORAL.

NOT LOVE, NOT WAR, NOR THE TUMULTUOUS SWELL

A FLOWER GARDEN.

AT COLEORTON HALL, LEICESTERSHIRE

THOUGH THE BOLD WINGS OF POESY AFFECT.

THE EGYPTIAN MAID

OR, THE ROMANCE OF THE WATER-LILY.

FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT THE ENTRANCE OF A CAVE.

FORESIGHT.

ADIEU, RYDALIAN LAURELS! THAT HAVE GROWN.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

William Wordsworth

"Mr. Wordsworth . . . had a dignified manner, with a deep and roughish but not unpleasing voice, and an exalted mode of speaking.

He had a habit of keeping his left hand in the bosom of his waistcoat; and in this attitude, except when he turned round to take one of the subjects of his criticism from the shelves (for his contemporaries were there also), he sat dealing forth his eloquent but hardly catholic judgments. . . . Walter Scott said that the eyes of Burns were the finest he ever saw. I cannot say the same of Mr. Wordsworth; that is, not in the sense of the beautiful, or even of the profound. But certainly I never beheld eyes which looked so inspired and supernatural.

They were like fires half burning, half smouldering with a sort of acrid fixture of regard, and seated at the further end of two caverns. One might imagine Ezekiel or Isaiah to