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28%OFFWilliam Wordsworth - The Prelude - 9780140433692 - 9780140433692
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The Prelude

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Description for The Prelude Paperback. An annotated parallel-text edition of Wordsworth's autobiographical poem in blank verse. Editor(s): Wordsworth, Jonathan. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 502.
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 undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140433692
SKU
9780140433692
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About 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 ... Read more

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