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2015,2016
Overview
THE “characters” ofThe Prelude, what few there are, can be divided according to the relationship they maintain with time. There are, first of all, those shadowy figures, like the discharged soldier, the Arab with the allegorical shell and stone, or the blind beggar on the London streets, who do not belong to the ordinary world of time. As representatives of “the utmost that we know, / Both of ourselves and of the universe,” their function is to “admonish from another world” (VII, 618-622), which is, in fact, the timeless world of eternity. These figures will not concern us at
