The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850,9780393090710

The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780393090710
ISBN10: 039309071X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1979-12-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in all three of its forms.

Table of Contents

Preface ix(5)
Events of Wordsworth's Life xiv(3)
Abbreviations xvii(4)
The Prelude xxi
The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
1(27)
The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books
28(21)
The Prelude of 1850 in Fourteen Books
29(456)
MS. Drafts and Fragments, 1798-1804
485(22)
1. The Beginnings of The Prelude: 1799 Drafts and Related Materials in MS. JJ, October 1798
485(10)
2. Fragments from Peter Bell. MS. 2, ca. February 1799
495(1)
3. Draft Material from the Five-Book Prelude in MS. W, February 1804
496(4)
4. Rejected Drafts for 1805, Book VIII, in MS. Y, October 1804
500(7)
Manuscripts of The Prelude, 1798-1850
507(3)
The Texts: History and Presentation
510(17)
General Editorial Procedures
510(2)
Composition and Texts: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
512(3)
Composition and Texts: The Prelude of 1805 and 1850
515(12)
Context and Reception
527(2)
References to The Prelude in Process: 1799-1850
529(12)
The Early Reception
541(24)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge To William Wordsworth
542(3)
Thomas De Quincey William Wordsworth
545(2)
From the Eclectic Review
547(3)
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
550(2)
From the Gentleman's Magazine
552(1)
From Graham's Magazine
553(2)
From the British Quarterly Review
555(2)
From the Dublin University Magazine
557(1)
From the Examiner
558(1)
Henry Crabb Robinson
559(1)
Frederick Denison Maurice
560(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
560(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
561(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
561(1)
Matthew Arnold
561(1)
A. C. Bradley
562(3)
Recent Critical Essays
565(114)
Jonathan Wordsworth
The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
565(20)
M. H. Abrams
The Design of The Prelude: Wordsworth's Long Journey Home
585(13)
Geoffrey H. Hartman
A Poet's Progress: Wordsworth and the Via Naturaliter Negativa
598(15)
Richard J. Onorato
The Prelude: Metaphors of Beginning and Where They Lead
613(12)
William Empson
Sense in The Prelude
625(17)
Herbert Lindenberger
Images of Interaction in The Prelude
642(21)
W. B. Gallie
Is The Prelude a Philosophical Poem?
663(16)
Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted 679(4)
Selected Reading 683

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