Download or read book Understanding 'The Prelude' written by W J B Owen and published by Humanities-Ebooks. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book meditate deeply on Wordsworth's own theory of literature, and probe into questions that few critics have bothered to ask, yet which, when asked, seem very central indeed. Topics treated include The Sublime and the Beautiful; Literary Echoes in The Prelude; Wordsworth's Aesthetics of Landscape; Wordsworth's Imaginations; The Fancy;' The Poetry of Nature'; sight as' The Most Despotic of our Senses'; the Snowdon vision and 'The descent from Snowdon'; ' A Sense of the Infinite'