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Adventure of English--500 A.D. to 2000 A.D Dover thrift editions Great courses (DVD) Great poets (Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd.) Illustrated poetry anthology Library of America ; 201 Longman annotated texts Oxford Library of the World's Great Books Romantics (New York, N.Y.) Thorndike Press large print core seriesFilter By Subjects
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Adventure of English--500 A.D. to 2000 A.D Dover thrift editions Great courses (DVD) Great poets (Naxos AudioBooks, Ltd.) Illustrated poetry anthology Library of America ; 201 Longman annotated texts Oxford Library of the World's Great Books Romantics (New York, N.Y.) Thorndike Press large print core seriesSummary: Opening by introducing William Wordsworth's boyhood home in the Lake District of England, this film from the Famous Authors series offers an overview of the writer's work and biography. The Lake District greatly inspired Wordsworth and resulted in his apparent fascination with nature. The film contextualizes the poet's life at Cambridge and then in France, the ongoing conditions of the French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Wordsworth, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 821.7 WORWordsworth, William
Summary: This book includes a short biography of Wordsworth's life and forty-seven of his best-loved poems, including Tintern Abbey, The world is too much with us, and Glad tidings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brockhampton Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 WORWordsworth, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 WORWordsworth, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 WORWordsworth, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pearson Longman 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 LYRNicolson, Adam
Summary: June 1797 to September 1798 is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and “Kubla Khan,” as well as his unmatched hymns to friendship and fatherhood, and William Wordsworth’s revolutionary songs in Lyrical Ballads along with “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth's paean to the unity of soul and cosmos, love and understanding. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 NICSisman, Adam.
Summary: Traces the friendship and collaborations of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from their initial encounter as young men in 1795, to their creation of "Lyrical Ballads," to their role in initiating England's Romantic Movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.709 SISMcDermid, Val.
Summary: When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, Jane Gresham, a Wordsworth specialist, continues her research on the friendship of Fletcher Christian and William Wordsworth and feels compelled to discover if Wordsworth's lost epic ever existed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MCDAustin, Wiltshire Stanton
Contents: Introductory chapter -- Ben Johnson -- Sir William Davenant -- John Dryden -- Thomas Shadwell -- Nahum Tate -- Nicholas Rowe -- Rev. Laurence Eusden -- Colley Cibber -- William Whitehead -- Rev. Thomas Warton -- Henry James Pye -- Robert Southey -- William Wordsworth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: R. Bentley 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 AUSSummary: After the chaos of the French Revolution, the concept of liberty became associated with nature rather than political events. This program analyzes the Romantic fascination and identification with the power of the natural world. Shedding light on William Blake's early childhood experiences in the countryside, the film also explores the work of John Clare-conveying how both poets revered the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)
Summary: A selection of works from American and British poets. It includes the poetry of William Blake, Robert Burns, George Crabbe, Philip Freneau, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, William Cullen Bryant, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Darley, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 AUDSummary: Examining the birth of Romanticism through the lenses of art and uprising, this program illustrates the political and cultural roots of the movement. The film begins by describing the significance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his influence on the French Revolution, and his belief that civilization and governmental systems suppress the individual human spirit. Linking Rousseau's philosophy to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program follows English through the 18th and 19th centuries, from attempts at reforming and standardizing the tongue in the Age of Reason to the soaring verse of Romanticism and the verbal prudishness of the Victorian era. Linguistic milestones are highlighted by original editions of critical texts, including Newton's Opticks, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Veevers, Marian
Summary: Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends. This book compares their upbringing and education, home lives and loves and, above all, their emotional and creative worlds. Original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 VEESummary: Tucked away in arguably the most lovely corner of Great Britain, a poetic revolution took place around the turn of the 19th century that did much to define the nature of modern poetry. Using the atmospheric scenery of the Lake District as a backdrop, this program focuses on the literary development of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. Expert commentary is provided by some of the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bennett, Jackie
Summary: "Writer's Garden goes inside the lives of 20 influential authors to discover the roles that gardens played. From Sir Walter Scott's fairytale Scottish castle to Rupert Brooke's riverside retreat in Cambridge; from Virginia Woolf's rural Sussex idyll to Beatrix Potter's windswept hill-top farm in the Lake District, each garden provides new insights into the writer's work, life, solace and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 820.9 BENDyer, Wayne W
Summary: The author illuminates the meaning and original context of the most important poems, writings, and phrases of history's greatest minds, and demonstrates how to apply them to daily life
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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Summary: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using 'the language of men'. They pointed the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets. Coleridge's addiction to opium affected his poetic output, and yet the handful of poems he did produce were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN COLWoolf, Virginia
Summary: This volume brings fresh light to Woolf's essays and enriches them with variations. It forms part of a unique collection from one of our greatest writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.912 Woolf Vol. 5Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Summary: With Selected journals 1820-1842 and its companion volume Selected journals 1841-1877, the Library of America presents the most ample and comprehensive nonspecialist edition of Emerson's work ever published--one that retains the original order in which he composed his thoughts and preserves the range of his style in long, uninterrupted passages, but without the daunting critical apparatus of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010