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What was the original title of "The Prelude" before it was published posthumously?

  • The Poem to Coleridge

  • Wordsworth's Life

  • The Journey of a Poet

  • The Romantic Prelude

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Before its posthumous publication, "The Prelude" was known as "the poem to Coleridge." It was Wordsworth's wife who titled it "The Prelude" and published it after his death.
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