Wordsworth often commented in his letters that he was plagued with agony because he had failed to finish the work. If The Recluse had been completed, it would have been about three times as long as Paradise Lost (33,000 lines versus 10,500). Wordsworth initially planned to write this work together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, their joint intent being to surpass John Milton's Paradise Lost. Though Wordsworth planned this project when he was in his late 20s, he went to his grave at 80 years old having written to some completion only The Prelude and the second part ( The Excursion), and leaving no more than fragments of the rest. The poem was intended as the prologue to a long three-part epic and philosophical poem, The Recluse.
The Prelude was the product of a lifetime: for the last part of his life Wordsworth had been "polishing the style and qualifying some of its radical statements about the divine sufficiency of the human mind in its communion with nature". The 1850 Prelude, published shortly after Wordsworth's death, in 14 books.The 1805 Prelude, which was found and printed by Ernest de Sélincourt in 1926, in 13 books.The 1799 Prelude, called the Two-Part Prelude, composed 1798–1799, containing the first two parts of the later poem.Its present title was given to it by his widow Mary. The poem was unknown to the general public until the final version was published three months after Wordsworth's death in 1850. He never gave it a title, but called it the "Poem (title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge" in his letters to his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798, at the age of 28, and continued to work on it throughout his life.
Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical poem The Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal work and reveals many details of Wordsworth's life. The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Autobiographical Poem by William Wordsworth
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