Brought up by parents who wrote for and about children, I often wondered why I was not attracted to their field, critically if not creatively. Wordsworths insistence that "the Child is Father of the Man" seemed to vindicate their interest in the child; but the more I read Wordsworth, the more I realized that mine would be a different field of study.... With a few exceptions, critical opinion has insisted that Wordsworths Prelude is an autobiography pure and simple, and it is therefore divorced from the classical tradition. The aim of this study is to prove that The Prelude shares basic...