The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, The Prelude takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind'.In its search for the origins of the adult personality, The Prelude takes the reader back t
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with it
This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in allthree of its forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of ThePrelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revise
