Wordsworth, William, selected and with introduction by Seamus Heaney, — The Essential Wordsworth.

NY, Ecco Press, (1988). 1st ed. VG PB. Wordsworth's poetry over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and essentially. contradictory efforts. Emotional susceptibility, intellectual force, psychological acuteness, political awareness, artistic self-knowledge and bardic representativeness truly and responsibly combined. An indispensable figure in the evollution of modern writing, a finder and keeper of the self-as-subject, a theorist and apologist.