A Preface to WordsworthLongman, 1986 - 203 pages A critical introduction to the life, thought, and art of the English Romantic poet in a new edition in which the author has chosen a number of representative poems to chart the growth of the poet's mind and explains the long philosophical poem "The Prelude", which reveals that autobiographical impulse to the full, as a work that went through many forms over half a century. |
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Biographical summaries | 3 |
Boat on Ullswater by Tom Sharpe | 10 |
The Prelude as autobiography I I | 11 |
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