Event Segmentation as an Explanation for the Seemingly Inconsistent Structure of Wordsworth's "Prelude"

William Wordsworth’s long poem the “Prelude,” published in the middle of the nineteenth century, has been criticized for its inconsistent structure. The poem describes the poet’s life quest for a theory of poetry. The emotional tone of the poem, defined in terms of its pleasantness, was measured usi...

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