The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem
by William Wordsworth
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Wilmington, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers, 1888. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Ex Library. Stamps and removed labels to endpapers and numbers written on copyright page. Text seems clean otherwise. Pages age toned with some edge wear. Binding intact with slight looseness. Cover wrinkled and worn with a library label and some glue residue to spine. Title and lettering to spine and cove is legible. 322 pages.
Synopsis
First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision.
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- Seller
- Zephyrus Books, IOBA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- AV0200005
- Title
- The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem
- Author
- William Wordsworth
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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