WORDSWORTH, William.

The Poems of William Wordsworth.

London: Edward Moxon , 1845.

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills": Finely Bound example of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Finely bound example of the Wordsworth's collected poetical works. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with morocco spine label lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the panels, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled, tissue guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Wordsworth, engraved title page. In very good condition.

English poet William Wordsworth launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798, published in collaboration with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The volume listed neither poet's name and included one of Wordsworth's most famous poems, Tintern Abbey, along with Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude; posthumously published the autobiographical lyrical poem became generally known as "the poem to Coleridge." Wordsworth served as Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850; his other major works include The Excursion, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, and The World Is Too Much with Us.