Wordsworth''s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworths poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of Wordsworths Poetry and Prose and The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 are the essential texts for studying this author.

Wordsworths Poetry and Prose includes a large selection of texts chronologically arranged, thereby allowing readers to trace the authors evolving interests and ideas. An insightful general introduction and textual introduction precede the texts, each of which is fully annotated. Illustrative materials include maps, manuscript pages, and title pages.

Criticism collects thirty responses to Wordsworths poetry and prose spanning three centuries by British and American authors. Contributors include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucy Newlyn, Stephen Gill, Neil Fraistat, Mary Jacobus, Nicholas Roe, M. H. Abrams, Karen Swann, Michael ONeill, and Geoffrey Hartman, among others.

The volume also includes a Chronology, a Biographical Register, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems. See more