The poems of William Wordsworth : collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series

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The poems of William Wordsworth : collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series

edited by Jared Curtis

Humanities-Ebooks, 2014

  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk
  • v. 3 : pbk

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Description based on 4th printing, corr.

Copyright: 2009, 2011, 2014

"The Cornell Wordsworth series, ... began appearing in 1975 ... coming to completion in 2007 ... The purpose of this edition is to collect all of the earliest complete reading texts garnered from the twenty-one volumes in the series."--Vol. 1, p. 7

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Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781847600899

Description

The three-volume edition of Wordsworth's poems is the most comprehensive edition now in print and contains reading texts chosen from the 21 volumes of the Cornell Wordsworth. Volume 1 includes his earliest work, composed while a school boy and during and after his time at university - Adventures on Salisbury Plain, The Borderers, the Two-part Prelude, The Ruined Cottage, and Home at Grasmere - along with his publications between 1797 and 1807, An Evening Walk, Descriptive Sketches, Lyrical Ballads, Peter Bell, and Poems, in Two Volumes.
Volume

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9781847600905

Description

The three-volume edition of Wordsworth's poems is the most comprehensive edition now in print and contains reading texts chosen from the 21 volumes of the Cornell Wordsworth.Volume 2 includes the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805-06, Benjamin the Waggoner, The Tuft of Primroses (and other poems composed for the unfinished Recluse), The Excursion, The White Doe, and translations from Chaucer and Virgil.
Volume

v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781847600912

Description

In the third volume are the shorter poems composed between 1807 and 1820, including the Waterloo odes, the fourteen-book Prelude, all eight sonnet series and itinerary poems composed between 1820 and 1845, including The River Duddon, Ecclesiastical Sketches and Yarrow Revisited, poems from the Scottish and Italian tours, and Last Poems, the remaining poems composed between 1821 and 1851.

Table of Contents

The Thirteen Book Prelude Benjamin the Waggoner The Tuft of Primroses and other poems for The Recluse The Excursion The White Doe of Rylstone Translations from Chaucer and Virgil

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