Abstract
This article discusses a medical link between Wordsworth and Coleridge during and around the composition of The Prelude. Looking closely at popular medical treatises on the imagination and its specific powers over the human mind and body in the late 1700s and early 1800s, it identifies a medical ‘strand’ within the The Prelude, particularly in relation to its address to an ailing Coleridge. Through biographical tracking and close attention to certain poetic emphases and motifs, it identifies a special motive for Wordsworth's writing of his poem, as well as an emergent dynamic between the two poets at this time: namely, that of benign physician (Wordsworth) and wandering patient (Coleridge).
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