The Prelude By William Wordsworth - Version of 1805

by William Wordsworth

327 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1949

About the author

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

Reviews

[Ink Ivory Club]

The text operates on a frequency of pure emotional and literary indulgence. Breathtakingly atmospheric from the very first opening line.

[Dymphy]

Apparently, I'm not a fan of flowery language.