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''The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem'' is an autobiographical conversation poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Intended as the introduction to the more philosophical ''Recluse'', which Wordsworth never finished, ''The Prelude'' is an extremely personal and revealing work on the details of Wordsworth's life. Wordsworth began ''The Prelude'' in 1798 at the age of 28 and continued to work on it throughout his life. He never gave it a title; he called it the "Poem (title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge" and in his letters to Dorothy Wordsworth referred to it as "the poem on the growth of my own mind". The poem was unknown to the general public until published three months after Wordsworth's death in 1850, its final name given to it by his widow Mary. ''The Prelude'' is widely regarded as Wordsworth's greatest work. ==Versions== There are three versions of the poem: * The 1799 ''Prelude'', called the ''Two-Part Prelude'', composed 1798–99, containing the first two parts of the later poem. * The 1805 ''Prelude'', which was found and printed by Ernest de Sélincourt in 1926, in 13 books. * The 1850 ''Prelude'', published shortly after Wordsworth's death, in 14 books. ''The Prelude'' was the product of a lifetime: for the last part of his life, Wordsworth had been "polishing the style and qualifying some of its radical statements about the divine sufficiency of the human mind in its communion with nature".〔''The Norton Anthology of English Literature'' 323.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Prelude」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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