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By Tim Milnes

ISBN-10: 023050082X

ISBN-13: 9780230500822

ISBN-10: 0230500838

ISBN-13: 9780230500839

The Prelude is William Wordsworth's nice autobiographical poem. began in 1798, and periodically extended and revised all through Wordsworth's existence, it was once released in 1850 after the poet's death.

This Reader's Guide:

• starts off with a dialogue of the advanced textual historical past of The Prelude
• covers the entire variety of serious responses surrounding the poem, from the 1st Victorian reviewers to Modernist polemicists, and from the 'theory wars' of the Seventies and Eighties to the emergence of modern 'green' criticism
• identifies and gathers major serious views, interpretations and debates hooked up with the paintings, contextualising and explaining the cloth less than discussion.

Comprehensive and approachable, this is often a useful advent to a widely-studied paintings which has come to imagine a significant position in Wordsworth's literary output.


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