V. Conclusion

John Stuart Mill famously credits reading the Prelude for helping him recover from his depression and nervous breakdown. Wordsworth shows us that tranquil contemplation and pleasure through imagination are possible. Repairment and restoration of our minds and our imagination are possible. The Prelude provides education for how to feel and how to sense. As we learn, we are rewarded with imagination and intellectual love.

Of pure imagination, and of love; And, as the horizon of my mind enlarged, Again I took the intellectual eye For my instructor, studious more to see Great truths, than touch and handle little ones. Knowledge was given accordingly; my trust Became more firm in feelings that had stood

(Book XIII, 50-56)

Imagination and intellectual love go hand-in-hand. Imagination is a blessing and bliss.

Imagination having been our theme, So also hath that intellectual Love, For they are each in each, and cannot stand Dividually

(Book XIV, 206-209)