William Wordsworth

The Prelude

The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)
Herausgeber: Wordsworth, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

An annotated parallel-text edition of Wordsworth's autobiographical poem in blank verse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780140433692
• ISBN-10: 0140433694
• Artikelnr.: 21522551

Autorenporträt

William Wordsworth was born in the Lake District in 1770 and died there eighty years later in 1850. He had three brothers and a sister, Dorothy, to whom he was extremely close. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, Wordsworth travelled widely and wrote poetry. He spent his twenties as a wanderer in France, Wales, London, the Lakes, Dorset and Germany. In France he fathered a child who he did not meet until she was nine, due to the war. In 1795 he was reunited with Dorothy and met Coleridge, who was to be a particular influence on his poetry. He became Poet Laureate in 1843. Jonathan Wordsworth is descended from William's younger brother Christopher, is Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust and a Lecturer in Romantic Studies at Oxford.