The poems of William Wordsworth : collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series. Volume II / edited by Jared Curtis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Contributor:

Curtis, Jared.

Series:

The poems of William Wordsworth : collected reading texts from the Cornell Wordsworth series ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Wordsworth, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (784 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] ; Penrith, Calif. : Humanities-Ebooks, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. It is without a doubt the most pleasurable way to read Wordsworth's poems in their entirety. 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 (in the text of the first edition in 1814) , The White Doe of Rylstone , and translations from Chaucer and Virgil. This title is also available as a searchable PDF ebook, from Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk, or to Lbraries from Ingram Digital. A Free PDF Addendum to this edition is now available from Humanities-Eooks, containing additional texts of An Evening Walk , The Baker's Cart, The Ruined Cottage , Nutting , Yew-Trees , the odes of 1815-17, Nab Well and Guilt and Sorrow , with the full 40-page index to the three printed volumes. With the Addendum the complete 3-volume edition is now 2600 pages. The editor, Jared Curtis, is Professor Emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University, also edited 'Poems, in Two Volumes' and Other Poems, 1800-1807, Last Poems, 1821-1850, and was co-editor with Carol Landon of Early Poems and Fragments, 1785-1797 , all in the Cornell Wordsworth.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Licence and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Notice""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Contents of Vols 1 & 2 ""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on the Text""; ""The Prelude (1805�1806)""; ""Book 1""; ""Book 2 ""; ""Book 3 ""; ""Book 4 ""; ""Book 5 ""; ""Book 6 ""; ""Book 7 ""; ""Book 8 ""; ""Book 9 ""; ""Book 10""; ""Book 11""; ""Book 12 ""; ""Book 13 ""; ""Benjamin the Waggoner (1806)""; ""The Tuft of Primroses, with Other Late Poems for The Recluse (1808�1828)""; ""The Tuft of Primroses""; ""[St. Paul�s]""; ""To the Clouds""

""[Composed when a probability existed of our being obliged to quit Rydal Mount as a Residence]""""The Excursion (1814)""; ""To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Lonsdale, K. G. &c. &c.""; ""Prospectus""; ""The Excursion""; ""Book 2 ""; ""Book 3""; ""Book 4 ""; ""Book 5 ""; ""Book 6 ""; ""Book 7 ""; ""Book 8 ""; ""Book 9 ""; ""[The Peasant�s Life]""; ""[The Shepherd of Bield Crag]""; ""The White Doe of Rylstone; Or the Fate of the Nortons (1815)""; ""The Force of Prayer; Or the Founding of Bolton Priory. A Tradition ""; ""Translations of Chaucer ""; ""The Prioress�s Tale""

""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale """"Troilus and Cresida""; ""The Manciple, (from the Prologue) and his Tale""; ""The Manciple's Tale""; ""Translations of Virgil ""; ""First Book""; ""Second Book ""; ""Third Book ""; ""Aeneid, Book IV, Lines 688�692""; ""Aeneid, Book VIII, Lines 337�366""; ""Georgics, Book IV, Lines 511�515""; ""Notes""; ""The Excursion ""; ""The White Doe of Rylstone ""; ""Index to titles, first lines and series titles ""; ""Wordsworth from Humanities-Ebooks""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-282-04065-0

9786612040658

1-84760-086-7

OCLC:

437108810