This paper explores the romantic epic features in The Prelude, analyzing the narrator’s self-consciousness in writing. As The Prelude is a story about poet-hero’s own life, the narrator should find and justify his own heroism. The narrator’s self-consciousness of writing shows both his anxiety of this quest, as well as the settlement of it; the epic of The Prelude is composed along with the narrator’s self-heuristic and self-performative writing. Writing between doubt and faith, the narrator shows and accepts the mission of “a Work that shall endure,” and invoking his “Friend”, he supposes the virtual readers’ responses and directs them toward those of ideal readers. With this self-criticism and self-acknowledgement, Wordsworth shows his own project and process of epic, embodying his romanticism in the spirit of epic.
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Abstract I. 점검과 승인에 의한 글쓰기 Ⅱ. 탐색과 수행으로서 글쓰기 2.1 작가적 역량 타진: 의심과 확신 사이에서의 글쓰기 2.2 이상적 독자 찾기: “친구”의 재창조 Ⅲ. 나가는 말 인용문헌