The Prelude by Wordsworth, William

The Prelude

A gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth's The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that...
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Author: William Wordsworth
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The Prelude by Wordsworth, William

The Prelude

BD$60.16

The Prelude

BD$60.16
Author: William Wordsworth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth's The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler.

The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, the work receives the treatment it deserves. Inspired by his dear friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poem charts the development of the author's mind from childhood to his experiences in Cambridge, London, the Alps, and France, touching on subjects ranging from leisure to literature, nature to imagination, and everything in between.

A meditation on the self, this work still stands as a masterpiece of English literature and is here complemented and enhanced by two hundred contemporaneous color plates that illuminate the text. Scrupulously selected and newly re-edited from the definitive manuscripts in existence, the marginal notes and glosses provide an extra touch that makes this a truly enlightening reading experience.

Helen Vendler's afterword is an appreciation of the poem which also puts in it context for American readers.

Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 10/15/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781684582501

About the Author
William Wordsworth (1770James Engell, the Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, chaired the Department of English there for seven years. He is author of four previous books and more than fifty articles and book chapters about eighteenth-century and romantic literature, higher education in America, and environmental studies. He was a senior fellow at the National Humanities Center and elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michael D. Raymond has studied the poetry of William Wordsworth for decades--a catalyst for his life-long search for deeply rooted, private places of remembrance. After earning a B.A. in English from Yale, he received his M.A. from Harvard and a PhD from Fordham University.

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