![]() ![]() The title by which it is now known was conferred by the poet's literary executors. Dorothy Wordsworth tended to refer to it as "the poem to Coleridge" and this is probably how William thought of it. The poem went through half a dozen major versions (see below), and remained without a title during Wordsworth's lifetime. Possibly all were true, but there can be little doubt that the reason it was never published in his lifetime was that Wordsworth had failed with The Recluse, whose first published instalment, The Excursion, was so ill received by the critics, the public, and even Coleridge, that Wordsworth became discouraged. For instance, one attributes it to a creative urge arising from recollections of childhood another to self-questioning about his vocation as a poet and a third to his preparation for the task of writing The Recluse, the great philosophical poem that Coleridge had convinced him that he could and should write. ![]() There are various accounts of the origins of Wordsworth's decision to write The Prelude. ![]()
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