Nineteenth century
William Wordsworth
1770–1850
Poet of the Prelude
The child is father of the man is a paradox from a poem about rainbows and continuity. He spent a long career trying to say how an early sight remains inside a later mind.
Nineteenth century
1770–1850
Poet of the Prelude
The child is father of the man is a paradox from a poem about rainbows and continuity. He spent a long career trying to say how an early sight remains inside a later mind.