The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Wordsworth, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192840444 ISBN 13: 9780192840448

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has long been one of the best-known and best-loved English poets. The Lyrical Ballads, written with Coleridge, is a landmark in the history of English romantic poetry. His celebration of nature and of the beauty and poetry in the commonplace embody a unified and coherent vision that was profoundly innovative.
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. It includes a large sample of the finest lyrics, and also longer narratives such as The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Peter Bell, and the autobiographical masterpiece, The Prelude (1805). All the major examples of Wordsworth's prose on the subject of poetry are also included.

About this title

About the Author:

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Stephen Gill is at Lincoln College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0192840444
• ISBN 13: 9780192840448
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 784
• Editor: Gill Stephen