![]() ![]() Towered up between me and the stars, and still,įor so it seemed, with purpose of its own I struck and struck again,Īnd growing still in stature the grim shape The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge, When, from behind that craggy steep till then Went heaving through the water like a swan Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky. Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point ![]() Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Leaving behind her still, on either side, It was an act of stealthĪnd troubled pleasure, nor without the voice Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in Wordsworth’s first version, published in 1799.For more info, click here.Two versions of this extract from The Prelude are shown here. The News and Times Godine, Publisher is distributed to the trade by Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram brand. It is aesthetically pleasing, intellectually rigorous, and completely satisfying. Set in a handsome, hardbound edition that equally fits in a coffee table display or upon a scholar s desk, this new edition is appropriate for the amateur and expert alike…There are no faults to be had with this book. Helen Vendler, The New York Review of Books At last-with Engell’s eloquent and succinct introduction, helpful marginal glosses, notes, a chronology, and maps-American readers and students have a Prelude of their own. These offer to the American reader’s eye an array of scenes indispensable to an understanding of Wordsworth’s world-lakes, crags, nocturnes, ships at sea, the Alps, Stonehenge, Revolutionary France, Cambridge, London. Handsomely produced by David Godine in a broad horizontal format (twelve by nine and a half inches), the volume is illustrated on almost every other page by paintings or drawings contemporaneous with the poem itself. ![]() Raymond (who sought out the invaluable illustrations). It was therefore with startled joy that I encountered the glorious new edition of The Prelude by my Harvard colleague James Engell, working in collaboration with the independent scholar Michael D. Regarded as Wordsworth’s masterpiece, and one of the great long poems in English literature . The Prelude is the greatest and most original of English autobiographies. Lloyd Schwartz, WBUR & NPR’s The ARTery Might fix the wavering balance of my mind,Īnd haply meet reproaches, too, whose powerĪ marvelous book - the great poem magnificently illustrated with 130 full-color paintings, drawing, maps and other visual aids contemporaneous with its writing. Meanwhile, my hope has been that I might fetch 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. ![]() 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. 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. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition, it finally receives the treatment it deserves. T he 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. At last we have a worthy visual counterpart to one of the timeless monuments of English verse.” - The Wall Street Journal “…an outsize, gorgeous book, replete with paintings and drawings-landscapes, houses, portraits-contemporaneous with the poem. ![]()
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