Wordsworth: The Prelude the 1805 Text

by William Wordsworth

Book Overview

The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. Written between 1798 and 1805, the text was intensively revised in Wordsworth's later years. This volume contains the original version of 1805, which was read to Coleridge. The poem was first published in 1850, after the poet's death, and is available in Wordsworth's Poetical Works. To facilitate comparison, line numbers of the 1850 text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019281074X
• ISBN13: 9780192810748
• Release Date: July 1970
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"