Abstract
The close affinity between Wordsworth and George Eliot has long been recognized but has never been adequately spelled out. Eliot's early novels with their rural settings and humble characters are obviously broadly analogous to Wordsworth's early narrative poems and to the aesthetic principles promulgated in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. There is a less obvious but equally substantial affinity between Wordsworth's life history as depicted in The Prelude and Eliot's emergence as a novelist, as Basil Willey has pointed out:
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