Last Poems, 18211850 by William Wordsworth

Last Poems, 18211850 by William Wordsworth

This book presents much of Wordsworth's poetic output from the last three decades of his life. Approximately two hundred poems are featured, including On the Power of Sound, the sequence of Evening Voluntaries, and the poet's tributes to the dead...

Intriguing continuities and distinctions appear across these two volumes: most of the pieces collected in Early Poems were not published in Wordsworth's lifetime or even after, although he evidently quarried them for phrases and directions he reworked in other poems while most of what appears in Last Poems was published or reissuedBoth volumes make use of manuscripts written on separate sheets, large and small, as well as notebooks. The most compelling of the latter may be the one, described in Early Poems, whose fine leather binding and paper suggest that it was the notebook Wordsworth remembers being given as a very young man. Its still unfilled sheets were an invitation to write, which he took up again and again.

-- Theresa M. Kelley, University of Wisconsin, Madison, * Journal of English and German Philology *

Nearing the end of its monumental efforts, the Cornell Wordsworth series marches on, with yet another carefully researched and edited volume, this of Williams Last Poems, 1821-1850, which, as the editor, Jared Curtis, explains, does not mean all the last poems but those that do not fit into categories contained in other volumes.

* Studies in English LIterature *

JARED CURTIS is Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle. APRYL LEA DENNY-FERRIS is Associate Professor of English at Viterbo College, and JILLIAN HEYDT-STEVENSON is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at the University of Colorado.

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ISBN 13	9780801436253
ISBN 10	0801436257
Titel	Last Poems, 18211850
Autor	William Wordsworth
Serie	The Cornell Wordsworth
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1999-06-24
Seitenanzahl	944
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.