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William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, portrait by Henry Edridge, 1804; at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England.
The Prelude, an autobiographical epic poem by William Wordsworth, was published posthumously in 1850. Although Wordsworth began working on the poem around 1798 and revised it through four distinct manuscript versions over the following decades, he withheld it from publication during his lifetime.12