The Textual History and Early Reception of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude
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https://doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2023n39a915Keywords:
The Prelude, William Wordsworth, textual history, reception, RomanticismAbstract
The writing of The Prelude accompanied most of William Wordsworth’s literary career. Although sketched in his youth, the poem only appeared to the public after the poet’s death, in 1850. With the late publication however, the Romantic work was not well received by the Victorian readers. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, a reappreciation of the poem takes place and it moves to the center of the Wordsworthian canon. Considering these questions, in this essay we intended to trace the history of the composition of the Prelude, and to recover the picture of its early reception and the beginning of the critical turn in its appreciation.
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