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The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. [1] Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical poem The Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal work and reveals many details of Wordsworth's life.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
The Excursion: Being a portion of The Recluse, a poem is itself a long poem by Romantic poet William Wordsworth and was first published in 1814 [1] (see 1814 in poetry).It was intended to be the second part of The Recluse, an unfinished larger work that was also meant to include The Prelude, Wordsworth's other long poem, which was eventually published posthumously.
The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Ninth: Residence in France 1799–1805 "Even as a river,--partly (it might seem)" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Tenth: Residence in France (continued) 1799–1805 "It was a beautiful and silent day" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind ...
To William Wordsworth is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1807 as a response to poet William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem The Prelude, called here "that prophetic lay". Wordsworth had recited that poem to his friend Coleridge personally.
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. [2]
In 1820, Wordsworth issued The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth that collected the poems he wished to be preserved with an emphasis on ordering the poems, revising the text, and including prose that would provide the theory behind the text. The ode was the final poem of the fourth and final book, and it had its own title-page ...
In Wordsworth's time, epiphanies had not yet been given that term and were referred to by Wordsworth as "spots of time." [30] There is agreement that the modern literary device we call "epiphany" began with Romanticism and in particular with the works of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth's innovation of "spots of time" in his poems have affected ...