by William Wordsworth Selected Poems is a collection of Wordsworth's most acclaimed and influential works, from his best known poem, 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', to an extract from his magnum opus The Prelude.

William Wordsworth's sole tragedy, while written in the late 1790s, did not appear until 1842, in his last volume of new poetry, Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; including the Borderers, A Tragedy.

With financial prospects, Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson on October 2, 1802. The settlement helped to support a growing family and also allowed the Wordsworths to continue their generosity to various friends and men of letters, many of whom came to stay at Dove Cottage, sometimes for months on end.