The scholarship on Wordsworth’s Book VII of The Prelude has focused on urban-rural dichotomy originating from the Industrial Revolution and rapid urbanization. Pinpointing the inadequacy of this duality, the study argues for a shift of perspective towards a trialectics which accommodates simultaneous different dimensions. With this in view, the research will use Henri Lefebvre’s conceptualization of space in his oeuvre to analyze Wordsworth’s confrontation with London. Far from conceiving Wordsworth as a passive receptor of London, the research finds out that Wordsworth's spatial subjectivity is distributed across the cosmic, urban, and personal planes. He struggles to achieve a rapprochement among natural elements, urban mystification, and personal consciousness. Wordsworth’s serious challenge is how to cope with the demanding task of uniting natural elements as “works”, industrial materials as “products”; and memory, fantasy, and desire as forms of subjectivity. Between the subject of praxis and of becoming, he is capable of producing his own life as a work of art.
