The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850

by Wordsworth, William; Abrams, M. H.; Gill, Stephen; Wordsworth, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780393090710
• ISBN10: 039309071X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in all three of its forms.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(5)
Events of Wordsworth's Life	xiv	(3)
Abbreviations	xvii	(4)
The Prelude	xxi
The Two-Part Prelude of 1799	1	(27)
The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books	28	(21)
The Prelude of 1850 in Fourteen Books	29	(456)
MS. Drafts and Fragments, 1798-1804	485	(22)
1. The Beginnings of The Prelude: 1799 Drafts and Related Materials in MS. JJ, October 1798	485	(10)
2. Fragments from Peter Bell. MS. 2, ca. February 1799	495	(1)
3. Draft Material from the Five-Book Prelude in MS. W, February 1804	496	(4)
4. Rejected Drafts for 1805, Book VIII, in MS. Y, October 1804	500	(7)
Manuscripts of The Prelude, 1798-1850	507	(3)
The Texts: History and Presentation	510	(17)
General Editorial Procedures	510	(2)
Composition and Texts: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799	512	(3)
Composition and Texts: The Prelude of 1805 and 1850	515	(12)
Context and Reception	527	(2)
References to The Prelude in Process: 1799-1850	529	(12)
The Early Reception	541	(24)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge To William Wordsworth	542	(3)
Thomas De Quincey William Wordsworth	545	(2)
From the Eclectic Review	547	(3)
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine	550	(2)
From the Gentleman's Magazine	552	(1)
From Graham's Magazine	553	(2)
From the British Quarterly Review	555	(2)
From the Dublin University Magazine	557	(1)
From the Examiner	558	(1)
Henry Crabb Robinson	559	(1)
Frederick Denison Maurice	560	(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay	560	(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	561	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson	561	(1)
Matthew Arnold	561	(1)
A. C. Bradley	562	(3)
Recent Critical Essays	565	(114)
Jonathan Wordsworth
The Two-Part Prelude of 1799	565	(20)
M. H. Abrams
The Design of The Prelude: Wordsworth's Long Journey Home	585	(13)
Geoffrey H. Hartman
A Poet's Progress: Wordsworth and the Via Naturaliter Negativa	598	(15)
Richard J. Onorato
The Prelude: Metaphors of Beginning and Where They Lead	613	(12)
William Empson
Sense in The Prelude	625	(17)
Herbert Lindenberger
Images of Interaction in The Prelude	642	(21)
W. B. Gallie
Is The Prelude a Philosophical Poem?	663	(16)
Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted	679	(4)
Selected Reading	683