Wordsworth as Critic

by W J B Owen

This book is the first full-scale account of the growth of Wordsworth's thinking about the theory of poetry. It draws mainly on his formal critical essays but also on unpublished material and personal statements about poetics and the growth and constitution of the poet's mind in The Prelude, in other verse, and in letters. The foundation of the discussion is an account of the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, based on Professor Owen's edition of that text...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148757911X
• ISBN13: 9781487579111
• Release Date: December 1969
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher