The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Collected, With Additions from Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes.

The three-volume collection assembles the author's prose on politics, ethics, aesthetics, and literary criticism, combining public addresses, essays, letters, speeches, prefaces, and previously unpublished manuscripts. It opens with political and moral writings including commentary on social measures and education, continues with essays on poetic principles, literary biography, epitaphs, and descriptive pieces such as a guide to the Lake District, and concludes with extensive notes, annotations, and illustrations explicating the poems. The selections range from polemical pamphlets to intimate correspondence, offering theoretical reflections, practical proposals, and editorial commentary intended to clarify poetic practice and social conviction.