![]() Prior to this Stephen Parrish published a Cornell edition of the 1798–99 Prelude in 1977, and in 1985 W. This is a two-volume giant of almost 2500 pages, of which just 435 are given over to a reading text of the poem. Reed’s edition of the thirteen-Book 1805 Prelude, published in 1991 in the Cornell series. A more detailed account of the procedures involved in textual scholarship of this magnitude, and of the detective work involved, is available in Mark L. ![]() First published in 1979, the Norton Edition includes an essay, ‘The Texts: History and Presentation’, and there we find described the composition of a two-Part Prelude of 1799, the subsequent evolution of a five-Book Prelude of 1804, a thirteen-Book Prelude of 1805, and a fourteen-Book Prelude published in 1850. ![]() A summary of this work is to be found in the Norton Critical Edition of the poem edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, M. Since its publication in 1850 The Prelude has been the subject of inexhaustible textual scholarship. ![]() If there is one critical issue that dominated academic discussion of The Prelude in the twentieth century, it was whether or not any such poem properly exists. ![]()
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