September 2016 | Hardback | 304pp | 130 colour illustrations and 2 maps | 978-1-56792-571-5 | $40.00 PRESS AND PUBLICITY: 8 [email protected] ) 617-451-9600 x 25 TRADE ORDERS: 8 [email protected] ) 1-800-344-4771 Here, newly edited from the 1805 manuscripts held by The Wordsworth Trust, is an entirely new edition of The Prelude, the most resonant poem of the Romantic Era. Over the last 150 years this poetic autobiography has emerged as one of the most admired works in all of English literature and certainly as the pre-eminent long poem expressing a personal romantic spirit. It tells the story of the growth of imagination and love in the mind of one of the finest poets of the last 250 years. This is the first fully illustrated edition of The Prelude. More than 130 paintings, drawings, and works of art, all in full colour, illustrate its events, people, and settings in the English Lake District, Cambridge, London, Paris, the Alps, and Wales. A new introduction, notes, newly commissioned maps of the Lake District and of Wordsworth’s walking tour of the Alps, a detailed chronology, and a selected bibliography are included, along with marginal glosses to help navigate the reader through the narrative of the poem. Also included is Coleridge’s poem: ‘To William Wordsworth’. This is an exciting new edition of a classic work, and one whose beautiful illustrations will allow readers to enter the poet’s world more fully than ever before. Wordsworth’s masterpiece, and beautiful pictures of his world together for the first time Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven David R. Godine, Publisher

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Page 1: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was ... · reader through the narrative of the poem. ... of Coleridge: The Early Family ... and works of art, all in full colour,

September 2016 | Hardback | 304pp | 130 colour illustrations and 2 maps | 978-1-56792-571-5 | $40.00

PRESS AND PUBLICITY: 8 [email protected] ) 617-451-9600 x 25 TRADE ORDERS: 8 [email protected] ) 1-800-344-4771

Here, newly edited from the 1805 manuscripts held by The Wordsworth Trust, is an entirely new edition of The Prelude, the most resonant poem of the Romantic Era. Over the last 150 years this poetic autobiography has emerged as one of the most admired works in all of English literature and certainly as the pre-eminent long poem expressing a personal romantic spirit. It tells the story of the growth of imagination and love in the mind of one of the finest poets of the last 250 years. This is the first fully illustrated edition of The Prelude. More than 130 paintings, drawings, and works of art, all in full colour, illustrate its events, people, and settings in the English Lake District, Cambridge, London, Paris, the Alps, and Wales.A new introduction, notes, newly commissioned maps of the Lake District and of Wordsworth’s walking tour of the Alps, a detailed chronology, and a selected bibliography are included, along with marginal glosses to help navigate the reader through the narrative of the poem. Also included is Coleridge’s poem: ‘To William Wordsworth’.This is an exciting new edition of a classic work, and one whose beautiful illustrations will allow readers to enter the poet’s world more fully than ever before.

Wordsworth’s masterpiece, and beautiful pictures of his world together for the first time

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven

David R. Godine, Publisher

Page 2: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was ... · reader through the narrative of the poem. ... of Coleridge: The Early Family ... and works of art, all in full colour,

JAMES ENGELL is Gurney Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and author of The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values and editor of Coleridge: The Early Family Letters.

More than 130 paintings, drawings, and works of art, all in full colour, with works by Turner, Gainsborough, Constable, Blake, Canaletto, David, Millet, and many others.

MICHAEL RAYMOND works as an independent scholar in the United States and is a former adjunct professor at Fordham University’s School of Professional & Continuing Studies.

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