Excerpt from The Prelude

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Excerpt from The Prelude

William Wordsworth

Aug 18, 2023

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For this week’s Poetry Aloud, we’re listening to a part of a long poem by William Wordsworth, The Prelude, which is about the making of the soul of a poet — namely, the soul of Wordsworth himself. That may sound more self-centered than it really is, because Wordsworth looks back upon his youth and his early manhood and recounts, with precision, powerfu…

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