Author: CURTIS, Jared, R.
Title: Wordsworth's Experiment with Tradition: The Lyric Poems of 1802. With Texts of the Poems Based on Early Manuscripts.
Description: Cornell University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Professor Curtis writes a series of tightly knit essays in this critical study, that examine the memorable lyric poems that Willian Wordsworth wrote in 1802. The author argues that this group of some thirty crisis poems represented a turning point in Wordsworth's poetics development. Human context and the poet's emerging sense o purpose in composing them is explored, along with his experiments in poetic form and diction. An examination of the two poems that are regarded as Wordsworth's greatest achievements -Resolution and Independence and the Immortality Ode.The second half of the books includes the poems themselves - edited to try to achieve the form they took in 1802 when first finished. Very good condition in dj. 227pp. ISBN 0801406625.

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