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 |
| Title | Last Poems, 18211850 |
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| Series | The Cornell Wordsworth |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 1999-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 944 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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