Essential Wordsworth

Offers a brief description of the themes of Wordsworth´s poetry and gathers a ѕelection of his work. From the introduction by Seamus Heaney: 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 toLyrical Ballads 1802 remains definitive.