The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850: Authoritative Texts, Context and Reception, Recent Critical Essays: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

The Prelude is Wordsworth's remarkable psychological exploration of his relationship, when he was a growing boy, with the natural world. In the first two books he investigates the interface between his imagination and the Lake District rising up all around him in all its grandeur and awe. The Prelude is an early 19th century meditation on the environment and is profoundly reverential in its impact on the 21st century reader. He also illuminates the spiritual condition of joy, an experience he recognizes as coming to one in some way from the natural world:"...when from excess of happiness my blood appeared to flow for its own pleasure and I breathed with joy."

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