The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)Random House, 2004 M09 30 - 736 pages First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision. |
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... Spring Meets Annette Vallon; moves to Blois and is converted by French army ocer and nobleman Michel Beaupuy to the cause of the people (1805 IX 127–550). Early summer Writes Descriptive Sketches (published 1793); Beaupuy's regiment ...
... Spring Meets Annette Vallon; moves to Blois and is converted by French army ocer and nobleman Michel Beaupuy to the cause of the people (1805 IX 127–550). Early summer Writes Descriptive Sketches (published 1793); Beaupuy's regiment ...
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... Spring 1799 Prelude revised for John to take on voyage. Early December Wordsworth translating Chaucer. 21 December Wordsworth takes up The Pedlar, and on 28th is at work on a third part for 1799, bringing story down to Cambridge ...
... Spring 1799 Prelude revised for John to take on voyage. Early December Wordsworth translating Chaucer. 21 December Wordsworth takes up The Pedlar, and on 28th is at work on a third part for 1799, bringing story down to Cambridge ...
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... first); reading prompts Coleridge to write To William Wordsworth, last major poem. Spring Blake poems, including The Divine Image and Tiger, copied by Wordsworth into his commonplace-book (from Benjamin Heath Malkin, who had access.
... first); reading prompts Coleridge to write To William Wordsworth, last major poem. Spring Blake poems, including The Divine Image and Tiger, copied by Wordsworth into his commonplace-book (from Benjamin Heath Malkin, who had access.
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... spring Second major Prelude revision, leading to transcription of MS D. 3 February Crabbe dies. June New four-volume Poetical Works. 21 September Death of Scott (after return to Abbotsford). Autumn MS D already being submitted to ...
... spring Second major Prelude revision, leading to transcription of MS D. 3 February Crabbe dies. June New four-volume Poetical Works. 21 September Death of Scott (after return to Abbotsford). Autumn MS D already being submitted to ...
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... spring and intended to be his life's work. As his draft opens he is asking himself reproachful questions in verse. His thoughts are in mid- ow, seemingly in mid-sentence: was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To ...
... spring and intended to be his life's work. As his draft opens he is asking himself reproachful questions in verse. His thoughts are in mid- ow, seemingly in mid-sentence: was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To ...
Contents
THE THIRTEENBOOK PRELUDE OF 1805 | |
Book Second | |
Book Third | |
Book Seventh | |
Book Eighth | |
Book Ninth | |
Book Tenth | |
Book Tenth and Eleventh | |
Book Twelfth and Thirteenth | |
Book Thirteenth and Fourteenth | |
Notes | |
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