By the latter date, he felt that his formative years had passed, that his poetic powers were mature, and that he was ready to begin constructing the huge parent work.
The poem begins in his boyhood and continues to 1798. And he explained (in the Preface to The Excursian) that The Prelude was like an antechapel through which the reader might pass to gain access to the main body of the structure. Wordsworth, it will be recalled, likened his projected great philosophical work to a magnificent Gothic cathedral. Many passages can tolerate two or more readings and afford new meaning at each reading. However, the apparent simplicity of the poem is deceptive comprehension is seldom immediate. The Prelude affords one of the best approaches to Wordsworth's poetry in general and to the philosophy of nature it contains.
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