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020			_a9780140422146
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082			_a821 _bWOR
100			_aWordsworth _eaut
245		4	_aThe Prelude : A Parallel Text
260			_bPenguin Books _a New York : _c1986
300			_a573 pages ;
490			_aPenguin classics.
500			_aIndex
520			_aFirst 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 exhortation that Wordsworth write a work upon the French Revolution, The Prelude has ultimately become one of the finest examples of poetic autobiography ever written; a fascinating examination of the self that also presents a comprehensive view of the poet's own creative vision.
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