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The Prelude

by William Wordsworth
Nicholas Farrell
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Wordsworth's Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French Revolution and his later disenchantment with it, and his personal journey to a belief in Nature as the great moral and spiritual force which shapes human life, but on which human society all too often turned its back. Subtitled 'Growth of a Poet's Mind', The Prelude is both a key document in the history of English literature, and an inspiring work of imagination, as fresh and challenging today as when it was written two centuries ago.

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    September 14, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781843797340
      • File size: 198002 KB
      • Duration: 06:52:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Wordsworth's poem is one of the fundamental documents of the Romantic period. Written and revised over a period of more than 50 years, it expresses Wordsworth's moral and aesthetic autobiography in blank verse. It isn't easy to maintain the listener's interest in such an abstract subject, but Nicholas Farrell finds the passion and intensity that must have struck readers when this was a new and revolutionary story. At the same time, Farrell's narration is intimate, not pompous or bombastic. He articulates Wordsworth's ideas without forgetting this is verse but without overstressing the metrical regularity and variations. This is an essential listen for anyone interested in the roots of Romanticism. D.M.H. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

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