William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Contents: The Poetry Collections and Major Works POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH AN EVENING WALK LINES WRITTEN WHILE SAILING IN A BOAT AT EVENING REMEMBRANCE OF COLLINS DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES TAKEN DURING A PEDESTRIAN TOUR AMONG THE ALPS GUILT AND SORROW; OR, INCIDENTS UPON SALISBURY PLAIN LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE THE BORDERERS LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS ADVERTISEMENT. THE FEMALE VAGRANT. GOODY BLAKE, AND HARRY GILL, A TRUE STORY. ANECDOTE FOR FATHERS SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT. WE ARE SEVEN. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING. THE THORN. THE LAST OF THE FLOCK. THE MAD MOTHER. THE IDIOT BOY. LINES WRITTEN NEAR RICHMOND, UPON THE THAMES, AT EVENING. EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. THE TABLES TURNED; AN EVENING SCENE, ON THE SAME SUBJECT. OLD MAN TRAVELLING; ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY AND DECAY, A SKETCH. THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN THE CONVICT. LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS VOLUME I VOLUME II POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I VOLUME II THE EXCURSION LAODAMIA THE PRELUDE The Prose Works VOLUME I: POLITICAL AND ETHICAL. I. POLITICAL. I. APOLOGY FOR THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 1793. II. THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA 1809. IV. TWO ADDRESSES TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF WESTMORELAND. 1818. V. OF THE CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL, 1829. II. ETHICAL. II. ADVICE TO THE YOUNG. III. OF EDUCATION. (a) ON THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG. (b) OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR WAYS AND NEEDS. (c.) EDUCATION. (d) EDUCATION OF DUTY. VOLUME II: AESTHETICAL AND LITERARY. I. OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY AND MONUMENTS. (a) A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS. (b) OF MONUMENTS TO LITERARY MEN. (c) OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE, A MONUMENT TO SOUTHEY, &c. II. UPON EPITAPHS. a) UPON EPITAPHS. (c) CELEBRATED EPITAPHS CONSIDERED. (b) OF POETIC DICTION. (c) POETRY AS A STUDY. (d) OF POETRY AS OBSERVATION AND DESCRIPTION. (e) OF 'THE EXCURSION.' (f) LETTERS TO SIR GEORGE AND LADY BEAUMONT AND (g) LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX. (h) OF THE PRINCIPLES OF POETRY AND HIS OWN POEMS. IV. DESCRIPTIVE. A GUIDE THROUGH THE DISTRICT OF THE LAKES. DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR THE TOURIST. DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES. SECTION FIRST. VIEW OF THE COUNTRY AS FORMED BY NATURE. MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. ITINERARY OF THE LAKES, FOR THE USE OF TOURISTS. KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. VOLUME III: CRITICAL AND ETHICAL. I. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE POEMS, INCORPORATING: I. POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH. II. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. III. POEMS FOUNDED ON THE AFFECTIONS. IV. POEMS ON THE NAMING OF PLACES. V. POEMS OF THE FANCY. VI. POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION. VII. MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. VIII. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803. IX. MEMORIALS OF A SECOND TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814. X. POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AND LIBERTY. XI. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTINENT, 1820. XII. MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY, 1837. XIII. THE RIVER DUDDON: A SERIES OF SONNETS. XIV. ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS. XV. 'YARROW REVISITED,' AND OTHER POEMS. XVI. EVENING VOLUNTARIES. XVIII. POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. XIX. SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND ORDER. XX. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. XXI. INSCRIPTIONS. XXII. SELECTIONS FROM CHAUCER MODERNISED. XXIII. POEMS REFERRING TO THE...