William Wordsworth - The Major Works: including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (812 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199536864 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 784 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.. This volume presents the poems in their order of composition and in their earliest completed state, enabling the reader to trace Wordsworth's poetic development and to share the experience of his contemporaries. All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as TheRuined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. William Wordsworth (1770-1
Stephen Gill, Professor of English, Lincoln College, Oxford.
A useful edition of the major Romantic poet Wordsworth is the leading figure in the Romantic movement and this edition contains just about everything you could ever want to read from him. His style of poetry created a whole new movement in British Literature. Wordsworth was attempting to leave behind the high language of the Augustan poets such as Pope and write in the common language about common things and about heartfelt emotions. Wordsworth said, "Poetry Is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling recalled In tranquility." If you are a Wordsworth fan, this is a good edition because it has all the major works. If you don't know . Geri said Stimulating, thought provoking.. Wonderful. Love his work.. "Let's talk about THIS EDITION" according to A. Lowry. The comments have been about Wordsworth, not about the edition in question.Potential purchasers should know that Stephen Gill has created a strange volume. Wordsworth lived to be 80, and revised his poetry all his life, leaving a Complete Works divided into thematic categories.Most editors respect the rule of honoring the author's final intentions, so that a revised version of a poem is "what the author really meant."Gill tosses that rule overboard, and in fact does exactly the opposite: his stated intent is to reprint the *earliest* version of any given poem. So, for instance, we get "The
. About the Author Stephen Gill, Professor of English, Lincoln College, Oxford