The Prose Works Of William Wordsworth

Volume 1 of The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, as edited by W J B Owen and Jane W Smyser. This is a print version of the new, searchable, navigable, electronic edition of this standard work. Compared with the original Clarendon edition, this one has two advantages: textual notes are more clearly separated and are columnized; and the existence of editorial commentary is indicated by marginal symbols in the text (in the ebook, of course, these symbols are hyperlinked to the commentary). While colour is used in the preview, as in the ebook, the print in the paperback is black and white. The Contents include Wordsworth's famous poetical manifesto, the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads', his Jacobinical defence of political terror in 'A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff; and an impassioned intervention in the peninsular wars, protesting at British betrayal of Portuguese and Spanish allies at the Convention of Cintra.

Volume 1 of the Prose Works contains Early Prose Fragments, A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff, Preface to The Borderers, Conversations with Klopstock, Essay on Morals, The Advertisement and Preface to Lyrical Ballads (parallel texts) with the Appendix on Poetic Diction, The Convention of Cintra. The entire Ebook text is searchable; the presence of editorial commentary is indicated by the symbol ¶ in the margin of the text; such commentary can be accessed immediately by hyperlink; the table of contents is itself hyperlinked, and is duplicated in the form of hyperlinked bookmarks at the left of the screen, enabling instant navigation between the 21 separate' texts'. The use of colour, for interlinear emendations (in the Ebook), and the separate lineation of columnized textual notes is designed to make these features of the editorial apparatus clearer and easier to construe than in the first edition.

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