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Wordsworth: "The Prelude."

In this introduction to Wordsworth's greatest poem, its creation, historical context, structure and reception history, Stephen Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives.
Print Book, English, 1991
Cambridge University Press, 1991
128 pages
9780521362184, 9780521369886, 0521362180, 0521369886
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Chronology; Texts of the prelude; 1. Introduction; 2. The verse; 3. God and nature; 4. The Poem; 5. The Prelude since 1850; Guide to further reading.