The PreludeA gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth's The Prelude, with full color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler. The Prelude, William Wordsworth's masterful autobiographical work composed in blank verse, is generally considered the poem at the heart of the Romantic movement and one of the great poems in the English language. In this fully illustrated and annotated edition,