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Article: Brian Wilson's abandoned masterpiece MEANWHILE
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- International Herald Tribune
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- September 22, 2004
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Verlyn Klinkenborg
International Herald Tribune
09-22-2004
Some readers, and I am one of them, prefer the version of ''The Prelude'' that Wordsworth finished in 1805 and laid aside to the version published soon after his death in 1850. ''The Prelude'' is an autobiographical poem, and a certain freshness and immediacy evaporated as Wordsworth revised the text. His is a case in which an early work of art comes to have greater authority than the artist, in later life, who made it. As a poet, the young Wordsworth overrules his older self. And so it is with Brian Wilson, the singer and songwriter who made the Beach Boys what they were. In late September, he will release a record called ...