The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140433694 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 1795 he was reunited with Dorothy and met Coleridge, who was to be a particular influence on his poetry. He had three brothers and a sister, Dorothy, to whom he was extremely close. Jonathan Wordsworth is descended from William's younger brother Christopher, is Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust and a Lecturer in Romantic Studies at Oxford. He spent his twenties as a wanderer in France, Wales, London, the Lakes, Dorset and Germany. As an undergraduate
In its search for the origins of the adult personality, The Prelude takes the reader back to the formative moments of childhood and youth: the baby at the breast, the boy ranging over the Cumbrian fells, the revolutionary undergraduate. From the Back Cover The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, The Prelude takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The editor provides an invaluable introduction to the texts and fuller, more detailed notes than in any previous edition, as well as significant textual variants and a biographical table of dates. This new Penguin English Poets edition of The Prelude contains the
It was for this. "A good deal of [Wordsworth's poetry], perhaps most of it, is very dull, like a long walk on a grey day. But just as somewhere on that walk there might be a sudden and superb flash of beauty, so in Wordsworth's poetry there are short passages, perhaps only a line or so, that are miraculous. An apparently simple unadorned phrase will suddenly blaze in the reader's imagination. These moments of his,. A said Avoid the Kindle edition!!. As is becoming depressingly evident, Penguin publishers show utter contempt for the Kindle. This is the third defective Penguin e-book that I have purchased for the Kindle, and it is clear that nobody has bothered to proof-read or format these works properly. Font sizes change randomly; words, sometimes 5 at a time, run into each other; and notes are often intrusive in the poetic texts, altering t. Mute Dialogues Thomas L. Cook "A babe who, through intercourse of touch, held mute dialogues with his mother's heart." unbelievably beautiful lineThis line from Wordsworth's Prelude captures the lovely tenderness of breast-feeding better than any depiction or description I have ever seen in my life. I look at my wife breast-feeding my baby and I'm already inured to the familiar image. I no longer see it. My mind is hypnotised,
First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision.. 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 undergraduate in Fran