Poems, in Two Volumes

The title page of Poems in Two Volumes

Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by William Wordsworth, published in 1807.

It contains many notable poems, including:

"Resolution and Independence"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils")
"My Heart Leaps Up"
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
"Ode to Duty"
"The Solitary Reaper"
"Elegiac Stanzas"
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
"London, 1802"
"The world is too much with us"

Critical reception

Poems in Two Volumes has been considered to be the peak of Wordsworth's power, and of his popularity. However, it was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron,^[1] whom Wordsworth would come to despise. Byron said of the volume, in one of its first reviews, "Mr. W[ordsworth] ceases to please, ... clothing [his ideas] in language not simple, but puerile".^[2] Wordsworth himself wrote ahead to soften the thoughts of The Critical Review, hoping his friend Wrangham would push a softer approach. He succeeded in preventing a known enemy from writing the review, but it didn't help; as Wordsworth himself said, it was a case of "Out of the frying pan, into the fire". Of any positives within Poems in Two Volumes, perceived masculinity in "The Happy Warrior" was one. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" couldn't have been further from it. Wordsworth took the reviews stoically.

References

↑ "William Wordsworth". Britain Express. 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
↑ Byron, Baron George (1837). The works of Lord Byron complete in one volume. H.L. Broenner. p. 686. Retrieved 29 December 2009.

William Wordsworth

Topics	Early life Lake Poets

Lyrical Ballads	Preface to the Lyrical Ballads "Anecdote for Fathers" "Lucy Gray" The Lucy poems "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" "A slumber did my spirit seal" "Strange fits of passion have I known" "Three years she grew in sun and shower" The Matthew poems "Michael, a Pastoral" "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" "We Are Seven"

Later poetry	Poems, in Two Volumes Peter Bell The White Doe of Rylstone "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" "Elegiac Stanzas" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" The Lucy poems "I travelled among unknown men" "London, 1802" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Resolution and Independence" "The Solitary Reaper" "The World Is Too Much with Us" "Character of the Happy Warrior"

The Recluse	The Excursion The Prelude

People	Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Dora Wordsworth (daughter) Dorothy Wordsworth (sister)

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