The Prelude

Name: The Prelude
Author: William Wordsworth

by William Wordsworth

Autobiographical poem of the poet's psychological and spiritual development from childhood

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William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet who with Coleridge launched the Romantic age with Lyrical Ballads (1798). His autobiographical epic The Prelude traces the growth of the poetic mind in relation to nature.

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