On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
> | Many recent anthologies have chosen the earliest possible form of a poem.
> | This comes in part from the widespread preference for the young man's
> | Prelude (1805) over the posthumous version (1850).
>
> Is there that causal link? How do you know? I'm intrigued. Do *you prefer
> the 1850 Prelude?!
>
> L
>
If by causal you're thinking of youth/age--I'd say partly. Romanticism
was constructed, especially during the 60s when many current editors were
educated, as rebellious and youthful.
I suppose, on the hole, I prefer 1805--though the deletion of the
vaudracouer & julia episode in 1850 is good, and some of the new passages
are splendid. I tend to reread it in alternate versions.
David Latane
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