William Wordsworth's The Prelude
A Casebook
ISBN13: 9780195180916ISBN10: 0195180917
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416 pages
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Jul 2006,
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Description
William Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude is a fascinating work-as autobiography, the fruit of many attempts at understanding the formative period of Wordsworth's life; as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; as an unstable literary text, which mutated through at least five discernable versions from 1799-1839; and as a poem offering the pleasures of blank verse in a variety and to an intensity unmatched in English non-dramatic poetry. In this collection, leading Wordsworth scholar Stephen Gill, gathers together thirteen influential essays on The Prelude . The volume as a whole is a useful and inspiring companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest, but most demanding poem.About the Author(s)
Edited by Stephen Gill, University Professor of English Literature, Oxford University
