"WILLIAM WORDSWORTH - The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind" - Edited from the Manuscripts with Introduction, Textual and Critical Notes by Ernest de Selincourt. 1965 2nd edition (stated); The Clarendon Press; Oxford, UK. The book is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Wordsworth, and six facsimiles (two span two pages, and two are fold-outs). "The Prelude" is an autobiographical poem by Wordsworth that details his personal and intellectual development from childhood to maturity, with a particular focus on his experiences with nature and his role as a poet. The poem, which explorers human consciousness and the formation of the self through a spiritual journey, was published posthumously but is considered a masterpiece of English Romantic poetry.
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