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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 21COA

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Ed.: Gill, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of the great Romantic poet. Introduced by a noted Wordsworth scholar, this edition includes poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade', a generous selection from his later poems, extracts from Guide to the Lakes, and the political prose of the Convention of Cintra.

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The wordsworth volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series is the most comprehensive selection currently available of the poetry and prose of one of the finest poets in the English language. The familiar poems from Wordsworth's 'Great Decade' are all included, but they are complemented by a more than usually generous selection of the best poems from his later years. The extracts from the Guide to the Lakes will be a revelation to many readers, as willthe political prose of the Convention of Cintra. All of the material is presented in chronological sequence, so that the reader can see how Wordsworth's changing concerns were expressed in prose as well as poetry. Work which Wordsworth published is separated from that which he did not reveal, which willenable the reader to trace through successive published volumes the development of Wordsworth's public poetic self, while also being able to follow the growth of the body of poetry which, for whatever reason, Wordsworth did notchoose to make public when it was written - The Prelude being the greatest and most obvious example.

Produktdetails

• 21st-Century Oxford Authors
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 842
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1118g
• ISBN-13: 9780199238613
• ISBN-10: 0199238618
• Artikelnr.: 27853520

Autorenporträt

Stephen Gill is retired Professor of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chronology
A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering
FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798)
FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800)
OTHER POEMS 1798-1800
FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807)
OTHER POEMS 1800-1808
THE PRELUDE (1805)
FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809)
FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810)
FROM THE EXCURSION (1814)
FROM POEMS (1815)
FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816)
FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820)
FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820)
OTHER POEMS 1815-1846
Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads
Notes
Further Reading
Index of Titles and First Lines

Rezensionen

Rereading Wordsworth is particularly rewarding and fitting since he is himself the great revisitor and rewriter. This generous selection of his work offers the perfect occasion to do so. Paul Batchelor, The Guardian