Wordsworth: The Prelude by Stephen Gill

Wordsworth: The Prelude by Stephen Gill

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In this introduction to Wordsworth's greatest poem, its creation, historical context, structure and reception history, Stephen Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives.

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Wordsworth: The Prelude by Stephen Gill

In this introduction to Wordsworth's greatest poem, its creation, historical context, structure and reception history, Stephen Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives. He gives an account of each book of the 1805 poem, and provides detailed discussion of its blank verse and of the religious viewpoint of the whole. The final chapter is a survey of the work's scholarly and critical reception.
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ISBN 13 9780521369886
ISBN 10 0521369886
Title Wordsworth: The Prelude
Author Stephen Gill
Series Landmarks Of World Literature
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1991-08-30
Number of pages 128
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