William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A CasebookWilliam Wordsworth's long poem The Prelude is a fascinating work-as autobiography, the fruit of many attempts at understanding the formative period of Wordsworth's life; as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; as an unstable literary text, which mutated through at least five discernable versions from 1799-1839; and as a poem offering the pleasures of blank verse in a variety and to an intensity unmatched in English non-dramatic poetry. In this collection, leading Wordsworth scholar Stephen Gill, gathers together thirteen influential essays on The Prelude. The volume as a whole is a useful and inspiring companion for students and general readers of Wordsworth's greatest, but most demanding poem. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
A Pure Organic Pleasure from the Lines | 43 |
Wordsworths Drowned Man | 73 |
The Lyric Voice of The Prelude | 123 |
Coleridges Presence in The Prelude | 147 |
The Via Naturaliter Negativa | 181 |
Wordsworths Long Journey Home | 209 |
The Image of a Mighty Mind 1805 Book 13 | 225 |
Simplon Pass to Mount Snowdon | 259 |
William Wordsworths Prelude | 293 |
Wordsworth and the Conception of The Prelude | 305 |
Wordsworth in The Prelude | 321 |
The Prelude Books 913 | 341 |
A Language That Is Ever Green | 377 |
Suggested Reading | 403 |
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| Title | William Wordsworth's The Prelude: A Casebook Casebooks in Criticism |
| Editor | Stephen Gill |
| Publisher | OUP USA, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0195180917, 9780195180916 |
| Length | 406 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory |
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