5/7/2023 0 Comments William wordsworth the prelude![]() This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘She Was a Phantom of Delight’.Īlongside his more personal and introspective compositions, poems such as ‘Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’, ‘She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways’ and ‘The Idiot Boy’ demonstrate, in an era of political and social ferment, the manner in which Wordsworth, together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forged a revolutionary new poetic style through the publication of Lyrical Ballads – one that embraced the vernacular and subjects previously deemed unworthy of poetry – and thus changed the literary landscape of England for ever. William Wordsworth’s verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. ![]() In the last analysis, The Prelude is valuable because it does precisely what its subtitle implies: It describes the creation of a poet, and one who was pivotal in English letters. These forms of beauty have not been to me,īut oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the dinįelt in the blood, and felt along the heart” The Prelude is critically central to his life work because it contains passages representing all three styles. The Prelude, 1798-1799 by William Wordsworth, Edited by Stephen Parish, Cornell University Press, Ithaka, New York, 1977, 2. ![]()
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