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    The Prelude
    The Prelude
    The Prelude
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    The Prelude

    By William Wordsworth

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    “The Prelude” is William Wordsworth’s epic reflection on his lifetime journey as an artist and is widely considered to be one of his most significant works. First published in 1850 after the poet’s death, Wordsworth began working on the blank verse poem in 1798 and continued modifying and expanding it for the rest of his life. Two earlier versions of the poem have been found and published, showing the evolution of this monumental work. A first version, called the “1799 Prelude”, is the poem in its earliest and shortest stage. A second version, the “1805 Prelude”, is much longer and captures Wordsworth’s thoughts on art and nature at the height of his early career. The final version, published here, is the most polished and mature. Beginning with Wordsworth’s childhood in the Lake District, continuing through his years spent in France, and concluding with his thoughts of the relationship between an artist’s imagination and nature, the epic poem is philosophical, reflective, and deeply personal. One of the Romantic period’s greatest works, “The Prelude” is a thought-provoking and inspiring epic on what it means to be an artist in an increasingly busy, modern world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateDec 11, 2020
    ISBN9781420980660
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    William Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, in the English Lake District, the son of a lawyer. He was one of five children and developed a close bond with his only sister, Dorothy, whom he lived with for most of his life. At the age of seventeen, shortly after the deaths of his parents, Wordsworth went to St John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduating visited Revolutionary France. Upon returning to England he published his first poem and devoted himself wholly to writing. He became great friends with other Romantic poets and collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads. In 1843, he succeeded Robert Southey as Poet Laureate and died in the year ‘Prelude’ was finally published, 1850.

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