The Earliest Poems: William Wordsworth

A unique opportunity to examine the apprenticeship of a great writer, this selection of poems composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals a precocious and remarkably accomplished early talent and shows that even in his earliest work, Wordsworth was already preoccupied with the themes that would later be explored fully in The Prelude.

William Wordsworth was an English poet and key player in the Romantic Age in English literature. He is the author of Lyrical Ballads and Tintern Abbey.