Series:

Revolution & Romanticism S., 1789-1834

11 total works

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Poems

by William Wordsworth

Published December 1955
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This is a comprehensively revised second edition of a classic student text with the 1798 and 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads reprinted together. It contains the complete text of one of the most important documents of the Romantic movement - now with new introduction, textual variants and fully up-dated, copious notes.

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Prelude

by William Wordsworth

Published December 1928
The Prelude, Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem, is crucial to our understanding of his life and poetry.

This epic work covers the experiences of Wordsworth's boyhood and his poetic development; his debt to literature; the awakening of his passionate interest in man; his hopes and despair for the French Revolution; his life in London and in the country, the highs and lows of his career; his relationship with his sister Dorothy and his friendship with Coleridge. Through The Prelude Wordsworth was at last free to devote his life to its true vocation and to record his gratitude for the
gift which brought him that freedom.

Written between 1798 and 1805, it was first published posthumously in 1850 after intensive revision in Wordsworth's later years. This volume contains the original 1805 text edited from manuscripts with a comprehensive introduction and notes.

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Excursion

by William Wordsworth

Published 26 September 1991
"I am convinced that there are three things to rejoice at in this Age-The Excursion Your Pictures, and Hazlitt's depth of Taste."-John Keats to Benjamin Robert Haydon"I have been reading Wordsworth's Excursion with many tears and prayers too. To me he is not only poet, but preacher and prophet of God's new and divine philosophy-a man raised up as a light in a dark time."-Charles KingsleyThe Excursion by William Wordsworth is a dramatic poem that advances largely through debate among the four main speakers: the Poet, the Wanderer, the Solitary, and the Pastor; the action of the poem seems to take place over five days. It was Wordsworth's second long poem, his public attempt at a "Great Poem," and his only work of any length to be read by most of his contemporaries. While The Prelude has found more favor with today's readers, The Excursion appealed to the Victorians, who embraced it, considering this influential work a source of spiritual strength in an uncertain world. This Cornell Wordsworth volume presents the first scholarly edition of The Excursion in half a century-and the first true scholarly edition of the original 1814 text. All manuscripts produced under the author's supervision are separately and completely transcribed in this edition. An introduction, a manuscript history, lists of printed verbal and nonverbal variants, extensive editors' notes, and selected photographs also chronicle the poem's full evolution. In short, this edition makes it possible, for the first time, to follow the complete compositional history of Wordsworth's epic.

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Peter Bell

by William Wordsworth

Published 11 February 1985

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An Evening Walk

by William Wordsworth

Published 6 February 1984

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Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Published 24 September 1970
This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, notes and selected criticism. This is a selection of Coleridge's most important poems, revealing psychological insight, extraordinary imagination, philosophical leaps and depth of feeling. His unique evocation of the full destructive power of man's own creative demon in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", down to the curiosity of a small film of soot on a grate are revealed in this volume. The text is based on a close examination of the earliest editions, and Coleridge's illuminating amendments to his poetry over the years are traced.

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Remorse

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Published October 1989

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