![]() ![]() The poem is spiritual and inward, yet anchored in particulars of landscape and events of history. It recounts Wordsworth's childhood and youth, his days at Cambridge, residence in London, walking tour of the Alps, his witnessing of the French Revolution, crisis and turmoil over the apparent failure of its revolutionary ideals, and the ultimate restoration of imaginative power. It tells the story of the growth of imagination and love in the mind of one of the finest poets of the last 250 years. ![]() Over the last 150 years this poetic autobiography has emerged as one of the most admired works in all of English literature and certainly as the pre-eminent long poem expressing a personal romantic spirit. ![]() Here, newly edited from manuscripts held by The Wordsworth Trust, is an entirely new edition of The Prelude, the most resonant poem of the entire Romantic Era. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |