The Two- Part Prelude is an autobiographical poem written by the romantic poet, William Wordsworth which explores the reasoning behind his creative genius that was given space to develop in response to the natural world largely through excursions as a child in the Lake District.

The poem describes a thirst for the unharnessed power of the mind in the poet's capacity for creative growth and argues that nature produced in Wordsworth an innate ability to develop his imagination and thereby pre-destined him to be the great nature poet.

The Two Part Prelude, also underlines a central belief that during childhood the future release of creative imagination is at its conception and explains why this stage was believed to be important as a key milestone in the poet’s evolving maturity.