Herbert Lindenberger
On Wordsworth's "Prelude"
Princeton University Press, 1963. First edition. xix/316 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Small price sticker of the UCLA Students' Store, with original price, is affixed at the top of half title page. Dust jacket, with price of $7.50 on front flap, displays very minor loss at top of spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"A significant critique which does not seek to propound a thesis but to illuminate a single major literary work from a number of points of view. Wordsworth's book-length poem--the work he considered his realization of his powers--is treated in all its freshness as a work of living literature."