Mary Hutchinson

I am at present at the seventh book." On the twenty-fifth December, eighteen oh four, he wrote to Sir George Beaumont, "I have written upwards of two thousand verses during the last ten weeks." We thus find that books one to four had been written by the sixth of March, eighteen oh four, that from the nineteenth February to the twenty-ninth of April nearly three thousand lines were written, that March and April were specially productive months, for by the twenty-ninth April he had reached book seven, while from sixteenth October to twenty-fifth December he wrote over two thousand lines.

Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth transcribed the earlier books more than once, and a copy of some of them was given to Coleridge to take with him to Malta.

It is certain that the remaining books of the prelude were all written in the spring and early summer of eighteen oh five, the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and part of the twelfth being finished about the middle of April, the last three hundred lines of book twelfth in the last week of April.

And the two remaining books, the thirteenth and fourteenth, before the twentieth of May.

I am at present at the seventh book." On the twenty-fifth December 1804, he wrote to Sir George Beaumont, "I have written upwards of two thousand verses during the last ten weeks." We thus find that books one to four had been written by the sixth of March 1804, that from the nineteenth February to the twenty-ninth of April nearly three thousand lines were written, that March and April were specially productive months, for by the twenty-ninth April he had reached book seven, while from sixteenth October to twenty-fifth December he wrote over two thousand lines.

Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth transcribed the earlier books more than once, and a copy of some of them was given to Coleridge to take with him to Malta.

It is certain that the remaining books of the Prelude were all written in the spring and early summer of 1805, the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and part of the twelfth being finished about the middle of April, the last three hundred lines of book twelfth in the last week of April, and the two remaining books, the thirteenth and fourteenth, before the twentieth of May.

The following extracts from letters of Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont made this clear, and also cast light on matters much more important than the mere dates of composition.

I am at present at the seventh book." On the twenty-fifth December eighteen oh four, he wrote to Sir George Beaumont, "I have written upwards of two thousand verses during the last ten weeks." We thus find that books one to four had been written by the sixth of March eighteen oh four, that from the nineteenth February to the twenty-ninth of April nearly three thousand lines were written, that March and April were specially productive months, for by the twenty-ninth April he had reached book seven, while from sixteenth October to twenty-fifth December he wrote over two thousand lines.

Dorothy and Mary Wordsworth transcribed the earlier books more than once, and a copy of some of them was given to Coleridge to take with him to Malta.

It is certain that the remaining books of the prelude were all written in the spring and early summer of eighteen oh five, the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and part of the twelfth being finished about the middle of April, the last three hundred lines of book twelfth in the last week of April, and the two remaining books, the thirteenth and fourteenth, before the twentieth of May.

The following extracts from letters of Wordsworth to Sir George Beaumont made this clear, and also cast light on matters much more important than the mere dates of composition.