![]() ![]() ![]() 123-388), ending with the "spots of time." This poem, Jonathan Wordsworth argued, is "in many ways the most impressive of the Preludes, bringing together in a densely packed, unique, and formally satisfying unit the great poetry of Wordsworth's original inspiration at Goslar in 1798, and the new magnificent sequences of early 1804" (1). Book V, the most difficult of the books to reconstruct in detail, probably began with material that would eventually form the first third of 1805, Book XIII (the ascent of Snowdon and a version of XIII, 70-165), and included about the last two-thirds of 1805, Book XI (ll. Book IV probably combined the contents of 1805, Books IV (vacation) and V (books). ![]() W and WW probably would have begun in a manner identical to the 1805, thirteen-book poem, with the first three books corresponding to books I-III of 1805 (I and II closely, III more generally). The poem that he describes through close attention to progress reports among the Wordsworth circle and to details in MSS. Jonathan Wordsworth's 1977 article, "The Five-Book Prelude of Early Spring 1804," first made the case that a five-book poem was probably "either finished or within easy striking distance of completion" in March 1804, and that it could be reconstructed in considerable detail from the available manuscripts. ![]()
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