商品簡介
The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work, composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, it finally receives the treatment it deserves. Inspired by his dear friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poem charts the development of the author's mind, from childhood to Cambridge, London, the Alps, and France, touching on subjects ranging from leisure to literature, nature to imagination, and everything in between. A meditation on the self, this work still stands as a masterpiece of English literature, and is here complemented and enhanced by 200 contemporary color plates that both illuminate and elucidate the text. Scrupulously selected and edited from the definitive manuscripts in existence, the marginal notes and glosses provide an extra touch that makes this a truly enlightening reading experience.
作者簡介
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a preeminent English Romantic poet whose Lyrical Ballads, jointly published with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic movement in English literature. The author of such beloved works as "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.James Engell is Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he chaired the Department of English for six years. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center, he has authored and edited numerous books and articles on Romantic literature and the state of higher education in America.Michael D. Raymond completed his M.A. at Harvard and Ph.D. at Fordham on William Wordsworth. For four decades president of his own financial service, Raymond Wealth Advisors, he lives with his wife in North Haven, Connecticut, near their three children and four grandchildren.
