Category: Book The Prelude

Although it is now known as “The Prelude” today, during William Wordsworth’s time, it was simple known as the “Poem to Coleridge”, an epic poem. According to the poet himself, this was not the usual sort of an epic since it is not concerned with the arduous struggles and ultimate victory of a hero in…

Wordsworth’s Romantic Masterpiece: ‘The Prelude’ and Its Characteristics as a Psychological Epic The Age of romanticism was an age (and was also considered a philosophical movement) of pure ‘transcendental’ discovery which focused on the ‘growth’ of the creative, artistic, and sensual emotions of the individual (Britannica Encyclopaedia). Since the individual was seen as an important……