The Major Works: Including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – 10 July 2008

Stephen Gill’s edition of Wordsworth was a landmark when it came out in 1984 and it remains so today. I’m mostly writing this to counter some ridiculous earlier reviews: the reason the poem known as ‘Daffodils’ has three stanzas, not four, is that (as it says very clearly in the prefatory matter, including a note on page one asking that all readers check said matter) Gill prints the *first* texts of the poems, i.e. the poems as they appeared to Wordsworth’s readers in his lifetime and not as they were published in 1850, the year he died; that additional stanza was added some years later, for the first collected edition of 1815.

Thank you for sending me this excellent book of Wordsworths poems which I gave as a Christmas present to a relative. The book arrived on time and in good condition.

This is a highly comprehensive edition, from one of the most qualified scholars on Wordsworth. It also includes some of his seminal prose texts, such as the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Of all the Romanticists Wordsworth's body of work is probably the largest, and this edition is well-formatted for anyone pursuing an interest in one of our most accomplished and enlightening poets.

Loved it thank you. Just what I wanted. Print is quite small.

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The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) One of the best collections of Wordsworth's writing currently available. Contains all the important poems in their original versions and in chronological order, including complete versions of Home at Grasmere and The Prelude, with useful notes and a brief, informative introduction. Also contains the important 1802 preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was a talented and courageous writer as a young man and, given the chance, speaks directly to us today. His views on poetry are remarkably sane and practical, and form a useful corrective to the obscurantism of much postmodern theory. An ideal volume for student and general reader alike.

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