The Prelude: The Four Texts by William Wordsworth humour with its “insistence that everything

with its “insistence that everything is just a construct”

Rather than a “fully fleshed character”

it is a terrific read full of humour and good sense

Here are harrowing first-hand accounts from the battlefields of 1915

When she tried to report the theft

The Prelude: The Four Texts by William Wordsworth humour with its “insistence that everythingFirst published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's