Volume

Like the 面積.

Yeah, like 体積.

[laughs] The 体積 was different.

The body of body is like...

Yeah.

The friend to whom the present poem is addressed was the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was resident in Malta for the restoration of his health when the greater part of it was composed.

Mr. Coleridge read a considerable portion of the poem while he was abroad, and his feelings on hearing it recited by the author after his return to his own country are recorded in his verses addressed to Mr. Wordsworth, which will be found in the Sibline Leaves, page one ninety-seven, edition eighteen seventeen, or Poetical Works by S.T. Coleridge, Volume I, page two hundred and six.

Rydal Mount, July thirteenth, eighteen fifty.

This advertisement to the first edition of The Prelude, published in eighteen fifty, the year of Wordsworth's death, was written by Mr. Carter, who edited the volume.

There is no uncertainty as to the year in which the later books were written, but there is considerable difficulty in fixing the precise date of the earlier ones.

Writing from Grasmere to his friend Francis Wrangham, the letter is undated, Wordsworth says, "I am engaged in writing a poem on my own earlier life, which will take five parts or books to complete, three of which are nearly finished." The late Bishop of Lincoln supposed that this letter to Wrangham was written at the close of eighteen oh three or beginning of eighteen oh four.

See Memoirs of Wordsworth, Volume I, page three oh three.

There is evidence that it belongs to eighteen oh four.