![]() My supposition here will be that the content of the episode problematizes Wordsworth’s view that poetic language mirrors “nature.” Eventually, the episode would be incorporated into the 18 versions of The Prelude. Wordsworth’s decision to place the poem in Book five suggests that he considered the text to be central to his thinking about the relationship between books and nature. ‘There Was a Boy’ was written in the early winter months of 1798 and first published in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800. I’m not fully satisfied with my attempt at interpretation and want to use this blog post to return to that book. I am particularly interested in the way in which moments of contact or anticipated contact between the human mind and inhuman forces configure an alien relationship between nature on the one hand and representation on the other. A month ago, I wrote a blog post on the boy of Winander episode in book five of The Prelude. ![]()
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