Its speaker claimed to have met Chaucer in its section called "Books," and its author begins by describing his childhood at Grasmere.
Paul De Man argued that this work presents an objectification of the self in its section on the Winander Boy Â– a youth who stood beside glimmering lakes before drowning. In another section of this work, an Arab describes the soothing power of the "shell of poetry" to the narrator. Its speaker claimed to have met Chaucer in its section called "Books," and its author begins by describing his childhood at Grasmere. According to The Fenwick Notes, this work's author bemoaned never finishing this section of a larger work. Its later books are called "Residence in France" and "Imagination and Taste" and memorably provide a description of its author's ascent of Mount Snowdon. Intended to be the first section of The Recluse, it is subtitled "Growth of a Poet's Mind." For 10 points, identify this long autobiographical William Wordsworth poem.
Paul De Man argued that this work presents an objectification of the self in its section on the Winander Boy Â– a youth who stood beside glimmering lakes before drowning.
The Prelude