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Favourite Book VI Themes:
321+ : Europe Trip.

Favourite Book V Themes:
64: Truth & Poetry

Favourite Book IV Themes:

14 : Charon
93-137 Walking His Dog
227 His pious Mother
243 Stargazing
256 Imagistic Boating Scene
308-339 At a Party

Favourite Book III Themes:

30 : I was the Dreamer, they the Dream
339-354 : Wordsworths own Nature

I may seem not to be highlighting much here but I will highlight the fact that in reading The Prelude you are bathing by every line in elevating poetry

Favourite Book II Themes:

55-61 : Lake Windermere
84 : Peniless Poverty
144 : Drinks Station

(I also learned in my further studying of Coleridge that he wrote a radical periodical called “The Watchmen”, Which includes a brief defence of the slave trade.)

Favourite Book I Themes:

14-16 : Sojourning
63 : Slackening Thought
189-190 : Odin
296-297, 314-315 : Beneath The Night Sky
401-414 : Addressing The Holy Spirit
560-590 : Beauty and Giddy Bliss
612+ : Beginning The Prelude