CONTENTS

List of contributors

Chronology of Wordsworth’s life and works

Wordsworth on poetry and imagination

Sources and short forms of citation

Introduction

STEPHEN GILL

1  Wordsworth: the shape of the poetic career

NICOLA TROTT

2  Wordsworth’s poetry to 1798

DUNCAN WU

3  Poetry 1798–1807: Lyrical Ballads and Poems, in Two Volumes

JAMES A. BUTLER

4  ‘The noble living and the noble dead’: community in The Prelude

LUCY NEWLYN

5  Wordsworth and The Recluse

KENNETH R. JOHNSTON

6  Wordsworth and the meaning of taste

FRANCES FERGUSON

7  Wordsworth’s craft

SUSAN J. WOLFSON

8  Gender and domesticity

JUDITH W. PAGE

9  The philosophic poet

STEPHEN GILL

10  Wordsworth and Coleridge

SEAMUS PERRY

11  Wordsworth and the natural world

RALPH PITE

12  Politics, history, and Wordsworth’s poems

NICHOLAS ROE

13  Wordsworth and Romanticism

PAUL HAMILTON

14  Wordsworth and America: reception and reform

JOEL PACE

15  Textual issues and a guide to further reading

KEITH HANLEY

Index