The Ruined Cottage" and "The Pedlar" (The Cornell Wordsworth) - Hardcover

Wordsworth, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080141153X ISBN 13: 9780801411533

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1979

Synopsis

For many, William Wordsworth personifies the Age of Romanticism. The Prelude, his masterpiece, is one of the finest poems in the English language, and the Lyrical Ballads, written with his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is a defining text of the Romantic movement. This new selection of his poetry, prepared by his biographer Stephen Gill and the Wordsworth scholar Duncan Wu from Gill's authoritative Oxford Authors edition, offers generous extracts from The Prelude, his work from Lyrical Ballads, as well as many of his fine shorter lyrics. It charts the growth of this great poet's mind from his early radical years as a champion of the French Revolution, to his later years as Poet Laureate and political conservative.

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Review:

"This is the essential Wordsworth anthology of the present, with sound notes and texts that ask all the current questions."--Keith Hanley, University of Notre Dame"Excellent anthology of Wordsworth's work."--Alan Lin, UCSC"A beautiful edition. I'll be certain to use this one for my Romanticism course."--Christopher Moylan, New York Institute of Technology"An excellent text with a new approach--to present Wordsworth as his contemporaries read him."--Leonidas M. Jones, University of Vermont"The only text for an undergraduate or graduate course which is serious about putting Wordsworth's poetry in its historical context."--Aline Fairweather, Temple University

Book Description:

Part of the Phoenix Harback poetry series

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 080141153X
• ISBN 13: 9780801411533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Butler James A.