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William 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.
Contents
Introduction
The Essays
William Wordsworth: "A Pure Organic Pleasure from the Lines"
CHRISTOPHER RICKS:
Revison as Form: Wordsworth's Drowned Man
SUSAN WOLFSON:
"Dithyrambic Fervour": The Lyric Voice of the The Prelude
MARY JACOBUS:
"A Strong Confusion": Coleridge's Presence in the Prelude
LUCY NEWLYN:
The Via Naturaliter Negative
GEOFFREY H. HARTMAN:
The Prelude and The Recluse: Wordsworth's Long Journey Home.
M. H. ABRAMS:
The Image of a Mighty Mind: (1805, Book 13)
JONATHON WORDSWORTH:
The Creative Soul: Simplon Pass to Mount Snowdon
WILLIAM A. ULMER:
Writing the Self/Self Writing: William Wordsworth's Prelude
ANNE K. MELLOR:
Wordsworth and the Conception of The Prelude
Howard Erskine-Hill:
"Some Other Being": Wordsworth in the Prelude
Richard Gravil:
A Transformed Revolution: The Prelude, Books 9-13
Alan Liu:
A Language That Is Ever Green
Jonathan Bate:
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