Skip to content

In the canon

The Prelude

William Wordsworth

Form
Form Epic Poem
Year
Year 1850
Pages
Pages 200

A poet tells the story of his own mind, from a boyhood of stolen boats and mountain terrors through the French Revolution's hope and horror, to trace how nature made him a poet.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!
The Prelude, William Wordsworth

The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.

Around it

The Prelude by William Wordsworth · The Daily Canon