7/8/2023 0 Comments The prelude 1805Its present title was given to it by his widow Mary. The poem was unknown to the general public until the final version was published three months after Wordsworth's death in 1850. He never gave it a title, but called it the "Poem (title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge" in his letters to his sister Dorothy Wordsworth. Wordsworth began The Prelude in 1798, at the age of 28, and continued to work on it throughout his life. Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical poem The Recluse, which Wordsworth never finished, The Prelude is an extremely personal work and reveals many details of Wordsworth's life. The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind An Autobiographical Poem is an autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Autobiographical Poem by William Wordsworth
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