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Written under the pseudonym "Carolus", Lyrics & Lines is a book of poems written, probably circa 1890-1900, as a gift to one he had loved and lost. Love, Humour, Moralisation and the Macabre all come together in a most enjoyable manner.

This poem was written by Wordsworth after a walking tour through the Welsh Borders. As usual with many of Wordsworth's poems, it opens with a description of the countryside which is then developed into a philosophical reflection about beauty and the suggestive power of recollection.

A collection that explores inherited trauma on an individual and communal level, from a National Poetry Series–winning poet who “refus[es] the mind’s limits” (Carol Muske-Dukes) Borderline Fortune is a meditation on intangible family inheritance—of unresolved intergenerational...