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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 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 ...
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 Snowdon episode of Book XIII of the 1805 edition of The Prelude, as well as Wordsworth's "A Night Piece," have been connected with "The Idiot Boy" as pieces "featuring a lunar epiphany." [136] The moonlight is also mentioned in Wordsworth's "Peter Bell," which seems to allude to Johnny's journey, [137] and has even been dubbed the poem's ...
The main plot points of The Prelude center upon the exploration of epiphany, which Wordsworth presents as vital to the history of his imagination. [32] Two central themes to The Prelude are of childhood and memory and the adventures that Wordsworth has had as a child in the Lake District. [32]
A proposal in Washington state seeks to end the delegation of rulemaking to unelected regulators in California concerning auto standards. House Bill 1117 attempts to remove this questionable ...
The Prelude was in a five book form by 1804 when Coleridge first read the work, but the version Wordsworth read was a much expanded version that was new to him. Wordsworth read the poem in hopes that Coleridge would be put in a better mood and that Coleridge would help Wordsworth work on The Recluse.