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London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. 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.). Quarter speckled calf over marbled boards. Fine. 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.). ‘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" Healey 19;…

Published in 1807, 'Poems, in Two Volumes' includes some of Wordsworth's most famous shorter poems, including 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.