A gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth’s The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler. The Prelude, William Wordsworth’s masterful autobiographical work composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, the work receives the treatment it deserves. Inspired by his dear friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poem charts the development of the author’s mind from childhood to his experiences in Cambridge, London, the Alps, and France, touching on subjects ranging from leisure to literature, nature to imagination, and everything in between. A meditation on the self, this work still stands as a masterpiece of English literature and is here complemented and enhanced by two hundred contemporaneous color plates that illuminate the text. Scrupulously selected and newly re-edited from the definitive manuscripts in existence, the marginal notes and glosses provide an extra touch that makes this a truly enlightening reading experience. Helen Vendler’s afterword is an appreciation of the poem which also puts in it context for American readers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-14
Mått246 x 312 x 32 mm
Vikt1 955 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBrandeis University Press
MedarbetareHelen Vendler
ISBN9781684582501

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William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet. James Engell, the Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, chaired the Department of English there for seven years. He is author of four previous books and more than fifty articles and book chapters about eighteenth-century and romantic literature, higher education in America, and environmental studies. He was a senior fellow at the National Humanities Center and elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michael D. Raymond has studied the poetry of William Wordsworth for decades—a catalyst for his life-long search for deeply rooted, private places of remembrance. After earning a B.A. in English from Yale, he received his M.A. from Harvard and a PhD from Fordham University.

Introduction: ’The Prelude: Place, Self, Crisis, and ImaginationMaps: The Lake District, Wordsworth’s Walking Tour of the Alps, Summer 1790Book FirstINTRODUCTION-CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIMEBook SecondSCHOOL-TIME CONTINUEDBook ThirdRESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGEBook FourthSUMMER VACATIONBook FifthBOOKSBook SixthCAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPSBook SeventhRESIDENCE IN LONDONBook EighthRETROSPECT-LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MANKINDBook NinthRESIDENCE IN FRANCEBook TenthRESIDENCE IN FRANCE AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONBook EleventhIMAGINATION, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTOREDBook TwelfthSAME SUBJECT, CONTINUEDBook ThirteenthCONCLUSIONTO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, S. T. ColeridgeA Note on the Text and Editorial PracticeChronologySelected Bibliography and Scholarly Editions of The PreludeAcknowledgmentsAfterword by Helen Vendler

“An outsize, gorgeous book, replete with paintings and drawings―landscapes, houses, portraits―contemporaneous with the poem. At last we have a worthy visual counterpart to one of the timeless monuments of English verse. Provides American readers with a sound sense not merely of where Wordsworth was but―through its lavish illustrations―what he found so rousing. The book clariﬁes how and why he became England’s best-loved nature poet.”