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...John F. McCarthy Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 THE CONFLICT IN BOOKS 1-11 OF THE PRELUDE By JOHN F. MCCARTHY After the introduction, the first two books of The Prelude form a continuous narrative unit under the title...

...Jonathan Wordsworth Richard J. Onorato. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. x + 435 pp. $12.50 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 460 REVIEWS The Character of the Poet: Wordsworth in “The Prelude...

...William H. Galperin Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 “TURNS AND COUNTER-TURNS” THE CRISIS OF SINCERITY IN THE FINAL BOOKS OF THE PRELUDE By WILLIAMH. GALPERIN In the middle of Book 11...

...Alan Liu Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 “SHAPELESS EAGERNESS” THE GENRE OF REVOLUTION IN BOOKS 9-10 OF THE PRELUDE By ALANLIU As the Kevolution books of The Prelude open...

... than seventy reproduc- tions of‘prints, for students of the subject to consult and consider. T H o M AS Lo<:K wooI) Uniilersily oj Washirigto ri Blake’s Prelude: “Poetical Sketches. ” By KOBE-RI-F. GIKKIVER.Baltimore and London...

...Van Akin Burd Gill Viljoen Helen, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1956 Pp. 284. $3.75. Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Van Akin Biwd 369 Ruskin’s Scottish Heritage: A Prelude. By HELENGILL VILJOEN...

...W. G. Stobie Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 A READING OF THE PRELUDE, BOOK V By W. G. STOBIE In all the principal manuscripts of The Prelude there occurs at the end of Book V a passage of eight lines...

... University of J I/idingt on Victorian Prelude: a History of English Manners, 1770-1830. Ey Maurice J. Quinlan. New York: Columbia Press, 1941. Pp. 301. $3.00. Not long ago a writer in the TLS used Professor John W. Dodds’ Thackeray: a Critical Portrait as the occasion for one...

... Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue Prelude; or, The Manifesto W hat is this? Fresh apparel, a new surname, a host of invited guests. Is MLQgetting married? Not exactly. But after a half century of devoted service to literary...

...J. M. Purcell Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 A NOTE ON THE REVISION OF THE PRELUDE By J. M. PURCELL Of the important long poems in English, Wordsworth's Prelude (1850 edition) is notable for the fewness of its riming couplets...

... eighteenth century. ALAN D. MCKILLOP The Rice Institute The Mind of a Poet. A Study of Wordsworth‘s Thought with Par- ticular Ref crence to “The Prelude.” By RAYMOND DEXTER HAVENS. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941. Pp. xviii + 670...

... at Los Angeles Winckelmann and his German Critics, 1775-1 781. A Prelude to the Classical Age. By HENRYCARAWAY HATFIELD. New York: Co- lumbia University Germanic Studies, New Series, No. 15, 1943. Pp. 169. $1.75. There has been of late a very strong interest in Winckelmann. German...

... that appears in some of his poetry, including sections of The PreZude, and because of disingenuous remarks he made about his mathe- matical abilities. The Prelude presents enough passages to the con- trary, but it is seldom read in its entirety, and the drowsy epic The Excursion (18 14), another...

... evasive rhetoric of the “older” Wordsworth in The Prelude displays a poet at best half-declarative of his early radicalism, seem- ing more willing to fly from a past self he dreads than to detail his former thoughts. The evidence Roe assembles to demonstrate these claims is textual and above all...

... in the nonconscious, preverbal experiences of childhood. We are touching upon the story of a fall from an original psychic balance, a fall which every man has suffered to some degree, but Wordsworth less than most, as The Prelude maintains. Like the Wanderer’s and the silent poet’s beginnings, Wordsworth’s...

... here is with the decline rather than with the ascent or summit. The Prelude gives us Wordsworth’s own account of the gradual growth and maturing of his Imagination, a faculty which provided him with a mystical awareness of something lying beyond the senses, even beyond...

...Michael Ragussis Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 LANGUAGE AND METAMORPHOSIS IN WORDSWORTH’S ARAB DREAM By MICHAELRAGUSSIS Book 5 of The Prelude is usually approached with some hesitation. It seems...

... from Wordsworth’s sonnet “Composed upon Westminster Bridge,” and his reference to the city as an “ant-heap” echoes Wordsworth’s famous apostrophe to London in Book 7 of The Prelude ( 149-50). 268 VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE WORDSWORTHS perceptions and memories of childhood...

... typological catalogue they might have produced at least a useful reference work. Instead, they have attempted to deal in detail with a relatively small - number of individual works: the Odyssey, the Aeneid, The Prelude, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Childe Harold, Tennyson’s “Ulysses...

...). 370 ANTONY ‘H. HARRISON 37 1 conventional terms. Rather, while working on the “Prelude” in De- cember 1869, he designated the projected poem a “moral history” in a letter to R~ssetti.~Later, with Tristram nearly completed, in a letter to Burne...