The Prose Works of William Wordsworth: For the First Time Collected, with Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. in Three Volumes.

William Wordsworth is remembered as the poet of daffodils and Tintern Abbey, but this landmark collection reveals another side entirely: the poet as fierce political theorist and unrepentant radical. Gathered here for the first time are essays, letters, and unpublished manuscripts that expose the intellectual architecture behind the famous verses. Central to the collection is the "Apology for the French Revolution," a bracing defense of republican principles written in response to Edmund Burke, in which Wordsworth condemns hereditary titles and the arbitrary machinery of monarchy. Yet the dedication to Queen Victoria remains, a curious tension that speaks to the contradictions of a man who could revere nature's sublime while championing the guillotine. Grosart's сборка restores the prose works that had languished in obscurity, demonstrating that Romantic poetry emerged from a mind deeply engaged with the era's most urgent questions about liberty, equality, and the social contract. For readers who assume Wordsworth was merely a gentle nature-worshipper, this collection offers a necessary correction.