Wordsworth and the Victorians tells the story of the flowering of Wordsworth's reputation and influence in the Victorian era. Stephen Gill uses a range of anecdotal and biographical material to illus
Specially commissioned essays cover the important aspects of Wordsworth's life and work. The volume examines his poetic achievement with chapters on poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and the chal
This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in allthree of its forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of ThePrelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revise
