William Wordsworth

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 

Poems, in two volumes 

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ..., 1807 

One of Wordsworth’s most significant collections of poetry, which includes among the 120 plus poems, “To the Cuckoo,” “To a Butterfly,” “Daffodils,” “The Solitary Reaper,” “The World Is Too Much With Us,” and “Composed upon Westminster Bridge.” 

WILLIAM WORDSORTH (1770-1850) 

The White Doe of Rylstone; or the Fate of the Nortons. A Poem 

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 

Memorials of a tour on the continent, 1820 

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 

Ecclesiastical sketches 

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 

132 sonnets on the history of the Church of England, from its founding to the early 19th century. 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 

Yarrow revisited and other poems 

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1835 

A substantial collection of new poems and the last such collection to appear in Wordsworth’s lifetime. The title poem was written as a memorial to a day spent with Sir Walter Scott on the banks of the famed Yarrow stream near Newark Castle in Scotland. 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 

The complete poetical works of William Wordsworth together with a description of the country of the lakes in the north of England, now first published with his works  

Philadelphia: J. Kay, jun. and Brother, 1839 

The first collected edition of Wordsworth published in America. 

 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850) 

The prelude, or, Growth of a poet’s mind: an autobiographical poem 

London: E. Moxon, (Bradbury and Evans, Printers), 1850 

One of the three parts of Wordsworth’s planned autobiographical poem, which were to have consisted of The Prelude, The Excursion, and The Recluse. 

EDWIN GREENLAW (1874-1931) 

A syllabus of English literature 

Chicago: B.H. Sanborn & Co., 1921 

Stanley Marcus (1905-2002) kept detailed course notes while a student at Harvard, as this interleaved copy of Greenlaw’s Syllabus attests. As he recalled in Minding the Store, there were three professors of English who greatly influenced him: “[Bliss] Perry taught me to love literature in general; [George Lyman] Kittredge taught me how to read and understand Shakespeare; [John Livingston] Lowes, who gave a course in nineteenth-century English poetry, started back in the twelfth century, so that we could understand the extent and basis of knowledge the nineteenth-century writers possessed.” 

From the collection of Stanley Marcus. Gift of Linda Marcus, 2003 

RONALD SANDS  

William Wordsworth 

London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1981 

Gift of Jane and Derrill Elmore, 2007 

WILLARD SPIEGELMAN 

Wordsworth’s heroes 

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985 

Part of the Willard Spiegelman collection. Gift, 2016