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The Five-Book Prelude

ISBN: 978-0-631-20548-7

July 1997

Wiley-Blackwell

228 pages

Description
Edited now for the first time by Duncan Wu, it provides students and general readers alike with an approachable introduction to Wordsworth's greatest work.
About the Author
Duncan Wu is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. He has edited Blackwell's Romanticism: An Anthology (1994) and Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995). His Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology was published by Blackwell in 1997. He is also editor of the Blackwell Companion to Romanticism.
Features
* Provides hitherto unpublished version of major Wordsworth poems.
* Offers clean text with invaluable annotations.
* Includes a comprehensive account of poem's evolution.
* Collects recent critical commentary on the poem.