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devilmann69's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
fast-paced
4.25
kerry2046's review against another edition
4.0
I absolutely loved Coleridge's poems in this collection but Wordsworths were not all that good to me. I love the romantic poets, their work is amazing.... Keats, Shelley, Byron and I think Coleridge actually deserved to have more space in their collaborative collection but, Alas! WOrdsworth was a selfish old goat who even told Keats that his (superior) poetry was rubbish. Wordsworth struggled being overshadowed and the believed himself above all other poets when in fact, I found Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and three other contributions bizarre and mystifying and far more intriguing than the majority of Wordsworth's poems. Not to say that I dislike all works of Wordsworth, he is one of the early romantics and influenced the greats. Some of his poems are brilliant like Harry Gill and Goody Blake but they did not all have the draw or charm of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work.
bareruinedchoirs's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
louholdenx's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
athenidel's review against another edition
4.0
I actually really enjoyed this poems more than I thought I would. Especially Tintern Abbey (a beautiful poem).
Romanticism isn't really my favourite area of poetry, but this definitely makes me want to explore more of Wordsworth's work!
Romanticism isn't really my favourite area of poetry, but this definitely makes me want to explore more of Wordsworth's work!
sarahdenn27's review against another edition
3.0
Not a huge poetry fan but Wordsworth is really good and a classic that obviously had to be read.
bookishdutchie's review against another edition
4.0
It’s challenging to rate a book of poems as a whole. As (in my opinion) some of these poems deserved five big fat stars, while others deserved maybe two. Overall it was wonderful to get aquatinted with “The Lake Poets” through this collection though.
My favorite were these lines from Wordsworth:
“Then come, my sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress,
And bring no book; for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.”
If you love nature and words and are a romantic type too, I highly recommend this book.
My favorite were these lines from Wordsworth:
“Then come, my sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress,
And bring no book; for this one day
We’ll give to idleness.”
If you love nature and words and are a romantic type too, I highly recommend this book.
peterp3's review against another edition
4.5
It’s good to read the original selection as published by Wordsworth and Coleridge after their year of friendship in Somerset. But it’s a strangely mixed bag - The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in particular seems very out of place as the first poem in the volume. My favourites here are Wordsworth’s poems of ordinary people facing tough lives - The Female Vagrant, The Thorn, The Last of the Flock, The Idiot Boy.
tienno22's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Some of these poems are beautiful; some of them are a little creepy.
This collection captures the Romantic era of literature well. There is a shift from intense rationality from the Enlightenment (being stuck in your head) to a harmonious relationship and appreciation of nature and human experiences. God is in nature. God is in the beauty of creation and (according to the Romantics of the era) cannot be perceived by only the rational apriori of the mind but must also be felt in creation and within human experiences. Nature plays a large role in the poems of this era. Some deep poems contemplate life or death and the meaning of it. Some contemplate the vanity of humanity and our imposition on the natural world.
Here are my favorites:
-The Nightengale
-We are Seven
-Exposition and Reply
-Tintern Abbey
This collection captures the Romantic era of literature well. There is a shift from intense rationality from the Enlightenment (being stuck in your head) to a harmonious relationship and appreciation of nature and human experiences. God is in nature. God is in the beauty of creation and (according to the Romantics of the era) cannot be perceived by only the rational apriori of the mind but must also be felt in creation and within human experiences. Nature plays a large role in the poems of this era. Some deep poems contemplate life or death and the meaning of it. Some contemplate the vanity of humanity and our imposition on the natural world.
Here are my favorites:
-The Nightengale
-We are Seven
-Exposition and Reply
-Tintern Abbey