‘We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind’
Poems, in Two Volumes.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.
Price: $4,750.00
About the item
First edition. With cancels D11 in volume I and B2 in volume II. [iii]-[viii], 158; [iii]-[viii], 170 pp. Bound without half titles. 2 vols. 12mo (6-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches 172 x 113 mm.). ‘We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind’. Quarter speckled calf over marbled boards. Fine. Healey 19; Ashley 8: 12-14; Wise, Wordsworth no. 8.
Item #323276
‘All bright and glittering in the smokeless air’
Wordworth’s 1807 Poems presents a large number of first appearances of his best known works, and indeed, some of the most enduring poems of the English language: "Resolution and Independence"; "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" "Ode to Duty"; "The Solitary Reaper"; "Elegiac Stanzas"; "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"; "London, 1802"; "The world is too much with us"; and, finally, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
