The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (Text of 1805) (Oxford Standard Authors): The Prelude the 1805 Text - Softcover

Wordsworth, William

 
9780192810748: The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (Text of 1805) (Oxford Standard Authors): The Prelude the 1805 Text

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The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. Written between 1798 and 1805, the text was intensively revised in Wordsworth's later years. This volume contains the original version of 1805, which was read to Coleridge. The poem was first published in 1850, after the poet's death, and is available in Wordsworth's Poetical Works. To facilitate comparison, line numbers of the 1850 text have been placed in square brackets on the right-hand side of the page.

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William Wordsworth (1770 -1850) was born in Cockermouth, England, and was part of the famous Lake Poets group. Wordsworth was the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. He is best-known for his collection of poems, Lyrical Ballads, that he wrote and published with his friend and fellow Lake Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The seminal collection helped to set England's Romantic Era in motion.

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The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry. It was written between 1798 and 1805, after the poet's death, had been subjected to intensive revision in his later years.

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