One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ''Composed Upon Westminster Bridge'', ''Tintern Abbey'', ''I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'', ''Lucy Gray'', and ''Michael''. Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth''s astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.