William Wordsworth - The Major Works including The Prelude

by Wordsworth, William; Gill, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780199536863
• ISBN10: 0199536864
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative. This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.

Table of Contents

introduction

textual note

bibliography

chronology

explanatory notes

index

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