Anyone read the Prelude? Read an extract from it and it

Definitely read it, it's one of the most important texts in all of English literature, even though a lot of people hate Wordsworth nowadays.

>>9485660
It's magnificent. If you can allow that the fucker wrote an epic about his own development, it contains some of the greatest poetry in English.

>>9485704
Agreed
I can understand how some of the ballad stuff may pall, but the 1805 Prelude is simply wonderful.

>>9485740
The bit I read contained some of the most beautiful description I've ever read: "Small circles glittering idly in the moon,/
Until they melted all into one track/
Of sparkling light."

How much of the poem is like that?

>>9485660
is this a good place to start with wordsworth? what else?

>>9487032
It is a good place to start despite its epic length. Contemporary with the French Revolution W recounts exciting times- crossing the Alps, journeying into France, his short time at Cambridge, boyhood in the Lake District, etc. As narrative verse it reads like a novel, but with singular loveliness. It charts his progress becoming a poet.
He edited it in later life so make sure (you) read the 1805, the better of the versions imo.

>>9485745
Came to post this. Is that you Paul?

good god you bookfaggots make me sick

>>9487590
why

>>9487572
*yawn*

>>9487590
And yet WW drew you in, anon. Wtf?

>>9485757
I've read the early version twice, and still pick it up now and then with a kind of need. The only other English writing poet I pick up with similar frequency is Whitman.