In the winter of 1798-99, shut up in the freezing German town of Goslar,
William Wordsworth began producing a series of lyrical fragments that
appeared first in letters written to Coleridge and emerged eventually as
source texts for The Prelude . These lyrics are revolutionary because
they construct a new version of the autobiographical 'I'. The
Revolutionary 'I' explores the numerous voices of the poetic speaker
'Wordsworth' and their relationship to the historical figure who shared
the same name.