The Earliest Wordsworth: Poems, 1785-1790Routledge, 2002 - 141 páginas Many editions of William Wordsworth's mature work are available but general readers have never before had access to the poetry he wrote during his school and university years. This selection from the poetry he composed between 1785 and 1790 reveals him to have been remarkably accomplished from an early age and shows that from the time he began to write he was already preoccupied with precisely the themes that would later be explored more fully in The Prelude, the great poem of his maturity. The Earliest Poems offers a unique opportunity to examine something normally withheld from our gaze: the apprenticeship of a great writer. Duncan Wu's introduction and his comprehensive notes guide the reader through versions of Wordsworth's work to show how he graduated from the early experimentation of pieces such as 'Beauty and Moonlight' to An Evening Walk, an impressive poem of over 600 lines which was published in 1793. This book spans the first five years of Wordsworth's career, revealing how the traumas of his early life forged his vision and produced the sensibility that would make him a most gifted celebrant of the human spirit. In effect, they also chronicle the evolution of British Romanticism out of the aesthetic morass of the late eighteenth century. Book jacket. |
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... ( probably about twenty lines ) is absent from the early draft ; what remains indicates that it was based loosely on Catullus ' Lugete , o Veneres Cupidinesque , the first line of which provides its epigraph . Mostly Wordsworth's ...
... ( probably about twenty lines ) is absent from the early draft ; what remains indicates that it was based loosely on Catullus ' Lugete , o Veneres Cupidinesque , the first line of which provides its epigraph . Mostly Wordsworth's ...
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... probably from around the same time as his translations from Virgil . He may have been aware of Abraham Cowley's translation of Catullus , Carmen xlv , published as Ode . Acme and Septimius out of Catullus . Cowley avoids cruces in the ...
... probably from around the same time as his translations from Virgil . He may have been aware of Abraham Cowley's translation of Catullus , Carmen xlv , published as Ode . Acme and Septimius out of Catullus . Cowley avoids cruces in the ...
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... probably Gilpin's ( lightly revised ) extract from Macpherson's Croma : ' The storm gathers on the tops of the moun- tains ; and spreads its black mantle before the moon . It comes forward in the majesty of darkness , moving upon the ...
... probably Gilpin's ( lightly revised ) extract from Macpherson's Croma : ' The storm gathers on the tops of the moun- tains ; and spreads its black mantle before the moon . It comes forward in the majesty of darkness , moving upon the ...
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Anacreon Αγε ζωγράφων αριτε Imitated | 6 |
A Ballad | 12 |
A Dirge | 28 |
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