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Hello the winter of 1798 was a terrible one across Europe allegedly the coldest of the

century in the small town of Goslar in Northern Germany a bitterly cold young English poet wrote some of his finest short poems and feeling dreadfully homesick then wrote a few consolatory verses about his childhood.

That was William Wordsworth, and the poem he

started writing was to be his masterpiece, The Prelude, an epic

retelling of Wordsworth's own life and a foundation stone of English

romanticism. With me to discuss the prelude, Rosemy Ashton,

Quain Professor of English Language and Literature University College London,

Stephen Gill, University Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Emma Mason, Senior Lecture in English at the University of Warwick.

Rosemy Ashton, Wordsworth is 28 years old, a lyrical balance, his great collaboration with Samuel Taylor, has just been published.

Can you explain what he, Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, were doing in this small German town?

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