Le prélude et autres poèmes

by William Wordsworth

""De tous les grands poètes que nous a donnés l'Angleterre, William Wordsworth a toujours été mon favori. Peut-être ai-je cru reconnaître d'emblée, dans son oeuvre, le genre d'accomplissement vers lequel, en vain, moi-même je tendais : l'harmonie égale du vers épousant - dans l'élégie, le récit ou la romance - le rythme et la douceur ou la force de l'émotion ; la sereine vérité d'un accord avec la nature ; la note de haute et grave sentimentalité lyrique qui, jusque dans les poèmes les plus délicats, fait résonner sans le moindre effet une profondeur métaphysique."C'est ainsi que débute la relation, par Jacques Réda, d'une visite à "la région natale de ce poète, celle-là même où ensuite il a vécu, écrit la plus grande partie de son oeuvre en osmose avec un paysage dont il n'a pas été le seul ni le premier à vanter la beauté, mais qui lui doit d'appartenir aux espaces les plus attirants de notre géographie poétique.""François-René Daillie.

Genres: Poetry

300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 16, 2001

About the author

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a big Wordsworth fan, see Romantic era. The book is about him and his friend Coleridge through correspondence, he wrote this his whole life (Coleridge was a very good writer too but it may be because of family lack of or size, he weren't well known. I don't keep track of everything always. Which is a weird things). I think they studied together. Included are a small amount of poems that are a regular poem style, with title. Very slim though in my opinion. Ive been reading bits of this book for years. I get blown away by how good it is. He wasn't gay included because I think there's a bias there in writeups. He was quite hippy like though for that time period. People boarded together in country houses. You'd have to to write paint etc. But not necessarily as some are much more inclined to it.

I'm not exactly sure I like preludes to be clear.

[Rupert · Rating 3 out of 5]

tel un oeil de dragon qui se sent affaibli sous l’effet du sommeil