The three-volume edition of Wordsworth's poems is the most comprehensive edition now in print and contains reading texts chosen from the 21 volumes of the Cornell Wordsworth. It is without a doubt the most pleasurable way to read Wordsworth entire, and in modern texts. Most of the texts are from the first printed editions, some from the first complete manuscript. Volume 1 includes his earliest work, composed while a school boy and during and after his time at university, and in Somerset and Grasmere:
The Vale of Esthwaite
, and other juvenile poems,
An Evening Walk
,
Descriptive Sketches
Adventures on Salisbury Plain, The Borderers
(the early text, not the one printed in 1842),
The Ruined Cottage
Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800),
the
Two-part Prelude, Peter Bell
Home at Grasmere
and
Poems, in Two Volumes
.
The editor, Jared Curtis, is Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University, also edited
'Poems, in Two Volumes' and Other Poems, 1800-1807, Last Poems, 1821-1850,
and was co-editor with Carol Landon of
Early Poems and Fragments, 1785-1797
, all in the Cornell Wordsworth.This title is also available as a searchable PDF ebook, from Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk or to Libraries from several aggregators including IngramSpark. An
Addendum
to this edition is now available from Humanities-Ebooks, containing additional texts of
The Baker's Cart, The Ruined Cottage
Nutting
Yew-Trees
, the odes of 1815-17,
Nab Well
Guilt and Sorrow
, with the full 40-page index to the three printed volumes. With the Addendum the complete edition is now 2600 pages.