The Prelude: A Parallel Text [Penguin Classics]

Wordsworth, William

ISBN 10: 0140422145 / ISBN 13: 9780140422146

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1986

Beschreibung

Penguin Classics, 1986. First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. Edited by J. C. Maxwell. The cover shows detail from "Buttermere Lake with parts of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower", by J.M.W.Turner. Gently used book with clean wrappers, sight wear to edges, binding tight and solid, pages toned, completely clean, no markings of any kind. Wordsworth's great poem 'The Prelude" is autobiography on a grand scale quite unprecedented in its tine. Subtitled 'Growth of a Poet's Mind', it develops his feelings and ideas about the intimacy of the natural world and th lasting importance of childhood memories. This volume contains the 1805-6 and 1850 versions of the poem, presented in parallel text for the first time in a paperback edition. J. C.Maxwell has provided a scholarly introduction and notes, commenting on the manuscript history of the poem and dealing with points of difficulty. 8vo. 576 pages. 1986, Penguin Classics.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Prelude: A Parallel Text [Penguin Classics]
• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140422145
• ISBN-13: 9780140422146
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good

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William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in April 1770, and died there eighty years later on 23 April 1850. In his youth Wordsworth experienced the French Revolution first hand and spent his twenties wandering throughout Europe. In 1794 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he wrote Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and to whom he addressed his epic work, The Prelude. Wordsworth gradually established himself as the great poet of the Romantic period and in 1843 he became Poet Laureate.