Wordsworth: The Prelude the Text
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wordsworth, William / De Selincourt, Ernest / Gill, Stephen, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. Written between and , the text was intensively revised in Wordsworth's later years. This volume contains the original version of , which was read to Coleridge. The poem was first published in , after the poet's death, and is available in Wordsworth's Poetical Works. To facilitate comparison, line numbers of the text have been placed in square brackets on the right-hand side of the page.