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About the Author
Stephen Gill is retired Professor of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He is a Trustee of the Wordsworth Trust and has published many books on Wordsworth, including William Wordsworth: A Life (1989), Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998, both OUP), The Prelude (1991), and Companion to Wordsworth (2003, both Cambridge University Press). His edition of The Salisbury Plain Poems with Cornell University Press in 1975 inaugurated The Cornell Wordsworth Series and he has edited Victorian novels-by Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Gissing-for OUP and Penguin. His previous edition of Wordsworth inaugurated the OUP 'Oxford Poets' series in 1984.
Reviews
As always with Stephen Gill this is a very useful book. It covers ground so scrupulously and authoritatively that it invokes trust, and the scope and range of knowledge of texts in multiple states is deeply impressive. Gills place in the line of Great Wordsworthians is already assured and this late addition to his lifes work, centred on the poets late additions to his lifes work, can only confirm it. * Sally Bushell, BARS Bulletin *
There is no doubt that both experienced and new readers of Wordsworth will find many valuable insights in this elegantly written book. Not least, textual scholars might note Gill's observation (made with an editors eye) that Wordsworth's habit and technique of revisiting explain his hostility to chronological arrangements of poems. * James Vigus, Notes and Queries *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199687985
Author Stephen Gill
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 358g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm * 17mm