The Prelude - Softcover

Wordsworth, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479399264 ISBN 13: 9781479399260

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

The Prelude or, "Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem" is an autobiographical epic poem by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal and revealing work on the details of Wordsworth's life. Wordsworth began 'The Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life. The Prelude was eventually published posthumously in 1850 by Wordsworth's wife, Mary Wordsworth. William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication - Lyrical Ballads. His magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude. Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

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Review:

I am a little ashamed to admit that I began by using William Wordsworth's The Prelude as my bedtime story, confident that I would be lulled off pretty fast. But it proved altogether too fascinating. Promoted to my striding-the-hills-and-dales book, it is hugely enjoyable, telling not just of Wordsworth's love of the lakes but of his life in London and in France during the Revolution, and full of course of famous lines ('Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive / But to be young was very heaven; Rise up, thou monstrous ant-hill on the plain / Of a too busy world!'). --Christina Hardyment, The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1479399264
• ISBN 13: 9781479399260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Illustrator: Struik Alex