This was inaccurate of course, since MS RV preceded it (and MS JJ preceded that, although it is a discontinuous MS). De Selincourt suggests that "It is highly probable that Books I and II were completed in the latter half of 1799" (xxxiv) and that "The earliest known manuscript (V) of any long consecutive part of The Prelude seems to belong to this period" (xxxv). Unsurprisingly, then, it made no case whatsoever for a "Two-Part Prelude" since this perspective upon the poem had not yet been uncovered. This edition listed the various MSS of the poem as: A B C D E J M U V W X Y Z, omitting MS JJ in DC MS 19, MS RV (DC MS 21) and DC MSS 15 and 16.Īs a result, the first major edition of The Prelude overlooked all early MSS towards Parts 1 and 2 with the exception of the Alfoxden Notebook (DC MS 14) which appeared to be added at the last moment. On the right-hand pages is a reprint of the authorized text, as it appeared in 1850, a few months after the poet's death: on the left, the text of the poem as it was read to Coleridge at Coleorton, in the winter after his return from Malta (1806-7). In 1926, Ernest de Selincourt published the, now well-known, parallel text version of The Prelude on facing pages: Ernest De Selincourt's 1926 Edition (reprinted 1928). Given below is a full account of the emergence of "The Two-Part Prelude" as a distinct version of the text in the second half of the 20 th Century. Helen Darbishire’s annotated copy of De Selincourt’s 1926 edition.
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