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Prelude

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Description for Prelude Paperback. Editor(s): Wordsworth, Jonathan; Gill, Stephen. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 704 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
There are no fewer than seventeen manuscripts of The Prelude in the Wordsworth library at Grasmere. Working with these materials, the editors have prepared an accurate reading version of 1799 and have newly edited from manuscripts the texts of 1805 and 1850—thus freeing the latter poem from the unwarranted alterations made by Wordsworth's literary executors. The editors also provide a text of MS. JJ (Wordsworth's earliest drafts for parts of The Prelude) as well as transcriptions of other important passages in manuscript which Wordsworth failed to include in any fair copy of his poem. The texts are fully annotated, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Series
Norton Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
500 g
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393090710
SKU
V9780393090710
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About William Wordsworth
M. H. Abrams (1912—2015) was Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural Supernaturalism. He is also the author of The Milk of Paradise, A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Correspondent Breeze, and Doing ... Read more

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