The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth

The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth

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The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth


There are many other aids for a thorough study of The Prelude and its background. A chronological table enables the reader to contextualize the biographical and historical allusions in the texts and footnotes.

References to The Prelude in Process presents the relevant allusions to the poem, by Wordsworth and by members of his circle, from 1799 to 1850. Another section, Early Reception, reprints significant comments on the published version of 1850 by readers and reviewers.

Finally, there are seven critical essays by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Richard J. Onorato, William Empson, Herbert Lindenberger, and W. B. Gallie.
William Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth in the Lake District and educated at Cambridge. As a young man he was fired with enthusiasm for the French Revolution but the year he spent in France after graduating left him disillusioned with radical politics. He turned more seriously to literature and, in collaboration with his friend Coleridge, produced Lyrical Ballads (1798). His return to the Lake District in 1799 marked the beginning of his most productive period as a poet, during which he wrote his most famous long poem, The Prelude (1805). Stephen Gill a Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He holds degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and is a long-serving member of the Wordsworth Trust. He has written William Wordsworth: A Life (1989) and Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780393044966
ISBN 10 0393044963
Titel The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850
Autor William Wordsworth
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsjahr 1979-12-31
Seitenanzahl 684
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