1st Edition

A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude Books I-V

By Ted Holt, John Gilroy Copyright 1983
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1983, this books aims to guide Wordsworth students through his difficult masterpiece by reading it in continuous sequence and making its sense emerge. The special value of this commentary is that it explains the structure of The Prelude by encouraging study of the poem as a continuous whole rather than selectively looking at individual sections — an approach that has typified... Read more

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Book I  Book II  Book III  Book IV  Book V;  Notes

Biography

Ted Holt, John Gilroy