The Prelude

Informationen zum Autor William Wordsworth (1770 -1850) was born in Cockermouth, England, and was part of the famous Lake Poets group. Wordsworth was the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. He is best-known for his collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, that he wrote and published with his friend and fellow Lake Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The seminal collection helped to set England's Romantic Era in motion. Klappentext The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. It was written between 1798 and 1805, after the poet's death, had been subjected to intensive revision in his later years. Zusammenfassung The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. Written between 1798 and 1805, it was first published posthumously in 1850 after intensive revision in Wordsworth's later years. This volume contains the original 1805 text edited from manuscripts with a comprehensive introduction and notes.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephen Gill (Editor), Ernest de Selincourt (Editor)
• Authors: William Wordsworth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.1990
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780192810748
• ISBN: 978-0-19-281074-8
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks, 207; Oxford Standard Authors
• Subjects: POETRY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets