Selected Poems - Couverture rigide

Wordsworth, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 185715245X ISBN 13 : 9781857152456

Editeur : Everyman, 2000

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is hard to imagine how radically the tender songs and simple stories in this collection changed the history of English poetry, but Wordsworth exerted a profound influence on the whole of nineteeth-century culture in Britain and America.

His literary revolution was founded on three principles: introspection, nature worship and the cult of ordinary experience. These three he blended together in a verse which is simple in manner but profound and deeply moving in content. In an age of revolutionary upheaval, industrial stress and religious doubt, Wordsworth rediscovered spiritual value in the individual’s encounter with nature. In our own age of ecological disaster and moral uncertainty, his achievement speaks to us more urgently than ever.

From the poet’s extensive output, this comprehensive selection includes everything non-specialist readers are likely to need.

Biographie de l'auteur

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth in the Lake District and educated at Cambridge. As a young man he was fired with enthusiasm for the French Revolution but the year he spent in France after graduating left him disillusioned with radical politics. He turned more seriously to literature and, in collaboration with his friend Coleridge, produced Lyrical Ballads (1798). His return to the Lake District in 1799 marked the beginning of his most productive period as a poet, during which he wrote his most famous long poem, The Prelude (1805).Stephen Gill a Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He holds degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and is a long-serving member of the Wordsworth Trust. He has written William Wordsworth: A Life (1989) and Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Everyman
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 185715245X
• ISBN 13: 9781857152456
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 560