The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
WORDSWORTH, William
[Volume III. . Edited from the Manuscripts with Textual and Critical Notes by E. De Selincourt and Helen Darbishire. [This volume only].
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1946
Stock code: 14657
Price: £110.00
Roy., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, top lightly dust-soiled; original cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped, moderately age-browned dustwrapper.
Volume III comprises Miscellaneous Sonnets, Memorials of various Tours, Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty, The Egyptian Maid, The River Dudgeon series, The White Doe and other Narrative Poems, Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1946). Professor Ernest de Selincourt is universally recognised as the single most outstanding editor of Wordsworth. Following his edition of the poet's great single work 'The Prelude' (1926), immediately recognised as the definitive text, he devoted almost twenty years to the preparation of his magnum opus - the 'Poetical Works' in five magisterial volumes. Quite apart from the scrupulous veracity of the texts, the edition bristles with variora and comprehensively detailed notes and comment by a lifetime scholar. In the last three volumes de Selincourt was assisted by his close collaborator Helen Darbishire who subsequently assumed his mantle.