The Prelude
The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)
$42.43
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
28 September 1995
Summary
The culmination of a life, this collection of poetry is an examination of the self, and the growth of a man. First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth’s death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work.
The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme ‘the growth of a poet’s mind’: leading the reader back to Wordsworth’s formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergradua…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433692 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433694 |
| Author: | William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 September 1995 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 44mm x 130mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in 1770 and died there eighty years later in 1850. He had three brothers and a sister, Dorothy, to whom he was extremely close. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, Wordsworth travelled widely and wrote poetry. He spent his twenties as a wanderer in France, Wales, London, the Lakes, Dorset and Germany. In France he fathered a child who he did not meet until she was nine, due to the war. In 1795 he was reunited with Dorothy and met Coleridge, who was to be a particular influence on his poetry. He became Poet Laureate in 1843.
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