The Five-Book Prelude by William Wordsworth
Edited now for the first time by Duncan Wu, it provides students and general readers alike with an approachable introduction to Wordsworth's greatest work.
The Five-Book Prelude
Summary
Edited from the original manuscripts at Dove Cottage, this work contains some of the passages of poetry later to appear in the 13-book poem of 1804-5, The Spots of Time, The Winander Boy, The Discharged Soldier, Recollections of Cambridge, The Infant Prodigy and The Climbing of Snowdon.
The Five-Book Prelude Summary
The Five-Book Prelude Reviews
We see the embryo but not the complete birth, and it is thoroughly useful to have this version in readable form. Reprinted after the text are four useful modern critical essays; the 'analogy passage' which appears in MS W after Snowdon but not in Dr Wu's or any other editorial text; then, most useful, a schedule indicating the precise sources of Dr Wu's text; a very full index. S. J. Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
About William Wordsworth
Duncan Wu is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. He has edited Blackwell's Romanticism: An Anthology (1994) and Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995). His Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology was published by Blackwell in 1997. He is also editor of the Blackwell Companion to Romanticism.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Introduction.
Further Reading.
Chronology.
Five-Book Prelude Annotated Text.
Recent Critical Commentary.
Appendix I: The Analogy Passage.
Appendix II: The Schedule of Manuscripts.
Index.
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The Five-Book Prelude by William Wordsworth
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