INDEX

Abolitionism, Wordsworth’s influence 238

Abrams, M. H. 10, 18, 227, 236, 247, 250, 258, 260

criticisms of Wordsworth 184, 185

Wordsworth’s poetic craft 113

actions, values measured by happiness 96

Adam (Paradise Lost) 237

Wordsworth likened to 80, 83

Aeneid (Virgil) 73

The Age of Reason (Paine) 58

The Age of William Wordsworth: Critical Essays on the Romantic Tradition (ed. Johnston and Ruoff) 254, 261

Akenside, Mark 144, 231

Alcott, Amos Bronson, educational ideas influenced by Wordsworth’s religious ideas 237

Alcott house (school) 237

Alcott, Louisa May 239

Alfoxden (Somerset) 15, 38, 80, 163

effect on Wordsworth’s poetry 39–40

references to The Recluse in Wordsworth’s letters 75

Allan Bank (Grasmere) xii

Altieri, Charles 258

Ambleside Church, Wordsworth memorial 3, 231

America

critical reactions to Wordsworth 3–4

industrialization driven by greed, environmental effects 242

National Park system 241, 242

reform movements, and Wordsworth 230–2

social reforms influenced by Wordsworth 237–41

Wordsworth’s religious influence 236–7

American Indians, Thomas Jefferson’s policies towards 234

American literature, affected by Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads 235–6

Amiens, Peace of (1802) xi

An Annotated Bibliography, with Selected Criticism, 1809–1972 (Jones and Kroeber) 262

Anglo-American literary relations, Wordsworth’s importance 242–4

An Annotated Critical Bibliography of William Wordsworth (Hanley) 262

Annual Review, criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 53

Anti-Corn Law League, Wordsworth’s opposition to 7

anti-war, theme, in Salisbury Plain 33

Antislavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform (Whittier) 239

The Anxiety of Influence (Bloom) 258

Appreciations (Pater), Wordsworth’s poetic imagination 111

Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth’s Poetry (Hall and Ramsey) 256

Arden, Forest 46

Areopagitica (Milton) 61

Aristotle xvi, 155

Arnold, Matthew 18, 43, 85, 224, 227, 230–2

assessment of Wordsworth 148–9

criticizes Wordsworth’s lack of style 152

as Wordsworthian 159

Wordsworth’s philosophy 231

Wordsworth’s poetic craft 110

The Art of the Lyrical Ballads (Parrish) 109, 253

As You Like It (Shakespeare) 46

Atkinson, William P., and Abolitionism 238–9

Auden, W. H. 11

Augustine, St 42, 59

conversion 56

Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet’s unfeminine behaviour 136

autobiography, and poetic craft 122–3

Autobiography (Martineau), Wordsworth’s domesticity 134

Averill, James 249

‘Back to the Future: Wordsworth’s New

Historicism’ (Levinson) 255

Bacon, Lord, and literary taste 101

Baillie, Alexander 159

Bainbridge, Simon 93

Bakhtin, Mikhail, dialogic writing 62

‘ballad’, and ‘lyrical’ 182

ballads, form 50

Barker, Juliet 264

Barrell, John 256

Bastille, storming x

Bate, Jonathan 258, 259

Wordsworth as environmentalist 185

Bate, W. Jackson xix

Bauer, N. Stephen 262

Beattie, James 231

Beatty, Arthur 152

Le Beau Monde, criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 53

Beaumont, Francis, critical standing in literary taste 101

Beaumont, Lady xvi, 156, 158

Wordsworth writes concerning expected critical reception of Poems, in Two Volumes 52

Beaumont, Sir George xii, xvi, 6, 75, 158

dedicatee of the 1815 Poems 13

Beaupuy, Michel 64, 233

influence on Wordsworth x

beauty, natural beauty, Wordsworth’s views xvi

Beckwith, Thomas F. 263

Beddoes, Thomas 236

Bedford Gaol, Bunyan imprisoned 56

Beer, John 253

Belgium 15

Bell, Andrew, educational theories 107

Bennet, Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice), unfeminine behaviour 136

Bennett, Betty T. 254

Bentham, Jeremy 96, 107

lack of market success 92

Panopticon proposals 92

public morality preferable to private morality 94–5

Berkeley, Bishop George 35

Betz, Paul F. xix, 250

Bialostosky, Don H. 253, 257

Bible 48

Birdsall, Eric xix, 249

Biré, Edmond 203, 215

Blackwood’s Magazine, Sara Hutchinson reads hostile reviews of Wordsworth’s works 138

Blake, William 227

anger at Wordsworth’s ideas 156–7

criticisms of The Excursion 13

introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

views about Milton 202, 215

Blank, Kim G. 259

blank verse see poetic metre

Bloom, Harold 88, 236, 258, 261

Bloomfield, Robert 244

Bolton Abbey 16

‘Bombastes Furioso’ (Wordsworth’s nickname) 6

books, cost, American edition of Lyrical Ballads (1802) contrasted with that in London 233

Bosanquet, Charles, Elizabeth Gaskell recommends to read The Excursion 142

Boswell, James, on Johnson’s attitude towards Milton 101

‘Bourdon’, concept 208–9, 220

Bourdon, Léonard 203–4, 205–8, 215, 216–25

possible references in The Borderers 208–9, 220

possible references in ‘Tintern Abbey’ 209, 222–7

Bourke, Richard 257

Bovary, Emma (Madame Bovary), development of taste 99

Bowles, William 171

Bowman, Thomas (master of Hawkshead Grammar School), influence 22

Bradley, A. C. 18

Brinkley, Robert 249

Brisman, Leslie 258

Bristol xi

British Critic, criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 53

Bromwich, David 3, 211, 224, 227, 256

Wordsworth’s self-repression 201–2, 214

Brooke, Dorothea (Middlemarch), spiritual and the material 66–7

Brooke, Mr (Middlemarch) 6–7

Brooke, Stopford 148, 158–9

Browning, Robert 13, 168

Bryant, Dr. Peter (father of William Cullen Bryant) 235

Bryant, William Cullen, influenced by Lyrical Ballads 90, 235

Bunyan, John 55, 56, 61, 64, 67

Grace Abounding, as conversion-narrative 63

spiritual and the material 65

Burke, Edmund 8, 61, 62

awareness of the mysterious and the vast 60

and domesticity 130

individual’s relation with nature 190, 191

public morality preferable to private morality 94

Reflections on the Revolution in France x

terror and imagination 60

Burns, Robert 40

Wordsworth’s reading 22, 23

Bushell, Sally 254

Butler, James A. xx, 248, 249

dating of MS a (The Ruined Cottage) 36

themes in The Ruined Cottage 36

Butler, Marilyn 255

Byron, Lord George Gordon 2, 224

criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 12–13

criticisms of The Excursion 87

criticisms of Wordsworth 228, 229

influence over Confederates 239

introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

poetry’s nature 153

Caird, Edward 227

Calais 15

Caleb Williams (Godwin) 200, 203, 214, 215

Calvert, Raisley xi

Cambridge (England) 15, 25

Cambridge (Massachusetts), Unitarians reinvent Wordsworth 231

Campbell, Patrick 261

Caraher, Brian G. 254

Carlyle, Thomas 8

impressions of Wordsworth 157

Castlerigg (nr Keswick), possible druidic religious practices 28

Catholic Emancipation xiii

Wordsworth’s opposition to 7

Cavell, Stanley 227

Chaitin, Gilbert 255, 258

Chandler, James K. 7, 254

‘The Changes of Home’ (Dana) 235

Channing, William Ellery 236

The Character of The Poet: Wordsworth in The Prelude (Onorato) 263

Chase, Cynthia 258

Chateaubriand, Vicomte de 227

Chaucer, Geoffrey 49

Childe Harolde’s Pilgrimage (Byron) 229

childhood 18–19

and education 60–1

identity gained through imagination 64

‘Spots of Time’, in Two-Part Prelude 63

children, theme 40

Chrestomathia (Bentham) 107

Christianity, institutional Christianity compared to spring in Grasmere 86

church

analogy with Wordsworth’s poetical development 11

theme 9–10, 11, 16

in Poems (1815) 14

in The Excursion 13

Cintra Convention 90

Co-adunation 173

Cockermouth

Dorothy Wordsworth’s birth x

Wordsworth’s birth x

Coleorton, Leicestershire, Wordsworth designs gardens 6

Coleridge, Hartley 178

comments on Dora Wordsworth’s ill health 140

Wordsworth’s domesticity 134

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor xi, xvi, 1, 6, 61–2, 191, 225, 227

aligns Wordsworth with Goethe 231

breach with Wordsworth (1810–12) xii

collaborations with Southey 37

contributions to Lyrical Ballads 181

corporeality of thought 64

criticisms

of Locke 59

of The Excursion 13

of Wordsworth 18

of Wordsworth’s idealism 232

death xiii

discussions about Wordsworth’s The Recluse 9

editorship of The Friend 103

extended family at Grasmere 83

friendship with Wordsworth 162

hears the 1805 version of The Prelude 57

heavenly truth, in ‘Destiny of Nations’ 65

influence 10

on ‘Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree’ 188

on origins of The Recluse 76

on The Ruined Cottage 33, 34–6

on ‘Tintern Abbey’ 169

on Wordsworth’s pantheism 25

invocation in The Prelude 61

life at Dove Cottage 133

mission of The Recluse 87

as philosopher in The Prelude 143

philosophical collaboration with Wordsworth 59

philosophical interests take precedence over poetic vocation 172–3

philosophy 236–7

and divergence from Wordsworth’s views 174–8

idealism 174–8

and poetic vocation 155–6

portrayal in The Prelude 174

reconciliation with Wordsworth (1828) 15

religious beliefs 58, 163, 164, 169–70, 172–3

republicanism 233

responsibility for conception of The Recluse 72

return from Europe xii

speculation about the origins of the ‘Lucy’ poems 43

suspected of espionage 58, 196

on ‘Tintern Abbey’, poetic metre and passion 120

and Unitarianism 5

views of Milton and Shakespeare 20

visited by Thelwall (1797) 75

visits Malta xii

visits Scotland with the Wordsworths (1803) xi

and Wordsworth

collaborative work 164–8

concerns with Nature 3

conversations on human suffering and reconciliation 79

The Recluse 18, 73, 86, 132

Wordsworth’s domestic relationship with women 137–8

Wordsworth’s language and its meanings 80

Wordsworth’s pastoral poetry 46

Wordsworth’s poetic craft 110

Wordsworth’s poetic metre 113–14

Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 144–6, 148, 161

Wordsworth’s theology of the imagination 173

Wordsworths’ life at Goslar 127–8

works

Biographia Literaria xii, xix, 18

Biographia Literaria: composition of Lyrical Ballads (1798) 38

Biographia Literaria: criticisms of Wordsworth’s idealism 232

Biographia Literaria: criticisms of Wordsworth’s Self -ness 175, 176, 177–8, 227

Biographia Literaria: and poetic imagination 110

Biographia Literaria: Wordsworth as its centrepiece 162

Biographia Literaria: on Wordsworth’s poetic metre 114

Biographia Literaria: Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 159

The Brook 166

The Brook: influence on Wordsworth’s ideas for The Recluse 76–7

‘Christabel’ 164, 172

Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (ed. Griggs) xx

‘Dejection’ 173

‘Dejection’: poetry and natural truth 175

The Eolian Harp 163

‘The Foster Mother’s Tale’ 181

‘Frost at Midnight’ 164, 167, 170, 178

‘Frost at Midnight’: as conversation poem 62

‘Frost at Midnight’: yearning for rural life 169

‘Kubla Khan’ 164

‘The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ 167–8

‘Lines Written in the Album at

Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest’,

philosophy 174

‘Lines written at Shurton Bars’ 166

Lyrical Ballads see Wordsworth, William, works, Lyrical Ballads Osorio

Religious Musings 163, 169

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 43, 164, 168, 171, 172, 181

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: authorship initially shared with Wordsworth 39

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: similarities to The Ruined Cottage 77

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: supernatural elements 169

Table Talk (ed. Woodring) xx

‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ 164, 165

‘To William Wordsworth’ 161

‘The Wanderings of Cain’ 164

Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Language of Allusion (Newlyn) 259

Collins, William 22

Common Sense (Paine), and universal rights 240–1

A Complete Concordance to The Lyrical Ballads of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, 1798 and 1800 Editions (McFahern and Beckwith) 263

A Concordance to The Poems of Williams Wordsworth Edited for the Concordance Society (Cooper) 263

The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth’s Prelude (McConnell) 252

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (De Quincey) 17

Confessions (Rousseau) 59, 94

conservation, links to Wordsworth’s views of nature 185–6

Continent 15

The Contours of Masculine Desire (Ross) 257

conversation poems 165, 166, 167

The Prelude 61–2

conversion, and landscapes 55

conversion narratives

The Prelude 55–9

and ‘Spots of Time’ in Two-Part Prelude 63

Cooper, James Fenimore 236

Cooper, Lane 263

Cooper’s Hill (Denham) 27

‘Coriolanus’ (Characters of Shakespear’s Plays) (Hazlitt) 21

Corn-Law Rhymes (Elliott) 7

Cornell Wordsworth xix, 22, 26

The Cornell Wordsworth Collection. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Presented to the University by Mr Victor Emmanuel (Healey) 262

The Cornell Wordsworth Edition (ed. Parrish) 247, 249

cosmopolitanism, Lyrical Ballads, Preface (1802) 235–6

Cottle, Joseph (publisher: Lyrical Ballads) 38, 76

The Courier 90

Cowley, Abraham 49

Cowper, William 27, 33, 36, 61, 144, 171

Wordsworth’s reading 22, 23

Crabbe, George 46

Wordsworth compared with 182–3

Crackanthorpe, Mrs Christopher (aunt of Dorothy and William), criticizes Dorothy for lack of femininity 136

‘Crazy Kate’ (Cowper, The Task) 33

The Critic as Artist (Wilde) 18

Critical Essays on William Wordsworth (ed. Gilpin) 261

Critical Review, criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 53

Critique of Judgement (Kant) 236–7

negative defense of religion 107, 108–13

Cronin, Richard 260

Cruise O’Brien, Connor 254

cultural context, changes affect the understanding of Wordsworth’s ideas 151

Curtis, Jared R. xx, 22, 49, 236, 237, 249, 250, 251

Dana, Richard Henry, influenced by Lyrical Ballads 235

Darbishire, Helen xix, xx, 158, 246, 247, 249, 250, 263

Darlington, Beth xx, 250

The Recluse and its composition 88

Davie, Donald 152

Davies, Hugh Sykes 257

Davis, Jefferson (Confederate leader) 239

Davy, Sir Humphry 236

references to in Middlemarch 6

‘The Dawn of Universal Patriotism: William Wordsworth Among the British in Revolutionary France’ (Erdman) 254

De Quincey, Thomas 17

comments about Wordsworth’s being undeserving of his wife 139

publication of The Convention of Cintra 90

Wordsworth’s critical reputation 226

Wordsworth’s feelings of injured merit 92

De Quincey, Wordsworth and the Art of Prose (Devlin) 259

dead, presence in the natural world 27–8

death

theme 16

in ‘Lucy’ and ‘Mathew’ poems 43–4

Poems, in Two Volumes 52

in ‘Strange fits of passion’ (Lucy poems) 118–20

The Vale of Esthwaite 35

Wordsworth’s reflections on his father’s death 23–6

theme in ‘Lucy’ poems 128

death penalty, Wordsworth supports 7–8

Declaration of Human Rights 234

Declaration of Independence

parallels with Lyrical Ballads 232

Wordsworth’s interests in universal rights 240

‘Defining the Self, Defiling the Countryside: Travel Writing and Romantic Ecology’ (Frey) 259

Defoe, Daniel 61, 92

Denny-Ferris, Apryl Lea 250

dependence, and independence 188–9

Descriptive Sketches, by William Wordsworth (ed. Birdsall and Zall) 249

‘The Destiny of Nations’ (Coleridge), heavenly truth 65

Devlin, D. D. 259

Dial (periodical) 240

Diary of a Citizen of Paris During the Terror (Biré) 203, 215

Discharged Soldier (The Prelude) 77, 78

Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity (Norton) 236

‘Disenchantment or Default?’ (Thompson) 254

Disowned by Memory (Bromwich) 3, 256

Wordsworth’s self-repression 201–2, 214

Distributor of Stamps (Westmorland)

Wordsworth appointed (1813) xii

Wordsworth resigns xiii

Dix, Dorothea Lynde 241

educational and mental health reforms 238

Wordsworth’s role in Pan-american asylum reforms 231

domesticity

Dove Cottage 126, 130–3, 134

and patriotism 126–30

Rydal Mount 126, 133–7

and sonnets 132–3

and women 134, 135–6

Wordsworth’s concerns with 124, 125–6

Wordsworth’s dependence on women 126

Wordsworth’s domestic relationship with women 137–40

Don Juan (Byron) 87

introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

Dove Cottage 46

domesticity 126, 130–3, 134

Wordsworths leave xii

Wordsworths move into (20 December 1799) xi, 12, 45

Dowden, Edward 158–9, 246

drama in Lyrical Ballads 168

Dramatick Poesie (Dryden), condemns use of blank verse 115

Druids 28–9

Dryden, John

condemns use of blank verse 115

popular attitudes towards Shakespeare 101

Dugas, Kristine xx, 250

Durham University, gives honorary degree to Wordsworth xiii

Durrant, Geoffrey 252

Dyer, George 198, 213

The Earl of Abergavenny, shipwreck xii

Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770–1798 (Legouis) 196

Early Poems and Fragments, 1785–1797 (ed. Landon and Curtis) 249

Easthope, Anthony 259

on Wordsworth’s poetic craft 110

on Wordsworth’s poetic metre 114, 115

The Ecclesiastical Sonnets of William Wordsworth: A Critical Edition (ed. Potts) 250

Eclectic Review 21

eco-criticism 3

ecology 185–6

Edinburgh Review 87, 182

critical hostility to Wordsworth 91

criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 53

Jeffrey’s criticisms of Wordsworth (October 1807) 13

Wordsworth claims never to have read 92

‘The Editor as Archaeologist’ (Parrish) 248

education

and childhood 60–1

Wordsworth’s influence on American education 237–8

educational theories 107

eighteenth-century scientific world-view 184

Eilenberg, Susan 253

Elegiac Sonnets (Charlotte Smith) 27

Wordsworth’s reading 22

Elements of Elocution (Walker) 116–17

Eliot, George 6–7

Middlemarch, Henry James’s views 229

The Mill on the Floss

development of taste 99

domesticity 135

spiritual and the material 66–7

Eliot, T. S. 101

Elliott, Ebenezer 7

Ellis, David 253

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 235, 236, 240, 241, 242

and Abolition 239

doubts of Wordsworth’s religious beliefs 236

visits Wordsworth (1833) 230–1

Wordsworth’s ideas about the mind as support for Abolition 238

Emile (Rousseau)

and childhood 60, 61

negative defense of religion 107

Emma (Home at Grasmere), characterization of Dorothy Wordsworth 131–2

emotional truth, in The Ruined Cottage 33–6

Empson, William 152

Endymion (Keats), on perception 147

Engell, James xix

English Literature in History 1780–1839: Pastoral and Politics (Sales) 255

environmentalism, Wordsworth’s interest 241–2

epics 67, 69

concept, and The Recluse 73–4

epistemology, Wordsworth’s concerns 145–7

epitaphs, and popular taste 104–6

Erdman, David V. 204, 215, 254

Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke) 59

An Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus) 40

An Estimate of William Wordsworth By His Contemporaries 1793–1822 (Elsie Smith) 260

Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake (Charlotte Smith) 75–6

Euripedes 17

European Magazine x

Eurydice 25

Eve (Paradise Lost) 237

Dorothy Wordsworth likened to in Grasmere 80, 83

The Evidence of the Imagination: Studies of Interactions Between Life and Art in English Romantic Literature (Reiman, Jaye and Bennett) 254

The Excursion: A Study (Lyon) 253

The Faerie Queene (Spenser) 8, 20

The Fall of Hyperion (Keats), introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

fancy, Wordsworth’s views xvii

Farington, Joseph 199, 213

Farmer’s Boy (Bloomfield) 244

Faust (Goethe), introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

feelings

importance 40–2

and poetry, Wordsworth’s views xiv–xv, xvi, xvii

in rustic life, as subject of Lyrical Ballads xv

Fell, Alice (‘Tour, Chiefly on Foot’: Poems, in Two Volumes) 52

female vagrants, theme in Salisbury Plain 29–30

feminism, Wordsworth’s interest in 239–41

Fenwick, Isabella 38, 125, 237–41, 251

Wordsworth’s domesticity 134

Ferguson, Frances C. 257

‘The Five-Book Prelude of Early Spring 1804’ (Jonathan Wordsworth) 249

Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, development of taste 99

Fletcher, John, critical standing in literary taste 101

Fletcher, Pauline 255, 256

The Force of Poetry (Ricks) 124

Fox, Charles James 5, 52, 129

criticizes Wordsworth’s use of blank verse 48, 114

Fox, George

impressions of Westmorland (1650s) 55

Journals 55

spiritual and the material 65

Foy, Johnny (‘The Idiot Boy’) 168–9

France, Wordsworth’s visits 15

French Revolution

failure and its effects, Coleridge’s views 166

failure and The Recluse 87

influence on ‘Tintern Abbey’ 235

Wordsworth’s criticisms 189, 191

Wordsworth’s guilt at participation in 64–5

Wordsworth’s involvement 198, 213

French Revolution (Carlyle) 8

Frend, William 198, 213

Frey, Heather 259

Friedman, Geraldine 255

The Friend (periodical edited by Coleridge) 103

Fulford, Tim 257

Fuller, Margaret 233, 240–1

Galperin, William H. 254

gardening, Wordsworth’s concerns with 131, 133

gardens, symbolism 132

Garland of Flora (Dix) 238

Gaskell, Elizabeth, regards Wordsworth as the philosopher of nature 142

Gellet-Duvivier, Jean-Henri (Wordsworth’s landlord in Orléans 1791) 197, 207, 218–21

arrest and execution 206, 216–18

Georgics (Virgil) 48

Wordsworth’s translation 25

Gill, Stephen xx, 6, 10, 29, 86, 185, 196, 226, 231, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 259, 260, 263

Gillies, R. P. xvii

Gilpin, George H. 261

Glen, Heather 253

God

less important than nature 42

reverence for, and poetry, Wordsworth’s views xvi

Godwin, Catherine Grace xviii

Godwin, William 8, 61, 94, 96, 155

criticisms 189, 190, 191

freedom and rationalism 60

influence 30–2

influence on Wordsworth 198–200, 201, 202, 213, 214

meets Wordsworth xi

Political Justice, publication xi

politics 93

Wordsworth’s dissatisfaction with 165

Godwinianism 33, 163

influence on Wordsworth 162, 163

Goethe, Johann 231

introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

Goldsmith, Oliver 22

Goslar (Germany) 15, 127–8

Wordsworths visit xi, 19, 38, 43, 170–1

Göttingen, Coleridge visits (1798–9) 43

Grace Abounding (Bunyan) 55, 56

as conversion-narrative 63

Grande Chartreuse Monastery, sanctified in the mental landscape 241

Grasmere 38, 52

domesticity 130–7

domesticity and patriotism reflected in the ‘Lucy’ poems 128

Dorothy Wordsworth’s life 139

influence 45–6, 47

as Paradise 86

spring compared to rise and fall of institutional Christianity 87

Wordsworth’s domestic relationships with women 137–40

Wordsworth’s vision 86

Wordsworths move to 127 influence on The Recluse 79–83

Grasmere Church 1

Wordsworth memorial 4

The Grasmere Journals (Dorothy Wordsworth) 126

landscape and conversion 55

Grasmere Volunteers 6

Graver, Bruce E. 244, 250

Gravil, Richard 261

Gray, Thomas 22

The Great Lawsuit Man versus Men Woman versus Women (Fuller) 240, 241

Green, Karen xx, 249

Green, Sarah P. 240

environmental concerns about industrial exploitation 242

Green-head Gill, location for Michael 47

Griffin, Robert J. 258

Griggs, Earl Leslie xx

Groom, Bernard 253

Guest, Stephen (The Mill on the Floss), development of taste 99

guilt, Wordsworth’s concerns with 31–3

Halevy, Elie 92

Wordsworth’s political views 94

Hall, Spencer 256

Hamilton, Paul 255

Hamilton, William Rowe xviii

Haney, David P. 257

Hanley, Keith 1, 249, 254, 258, 260, 262

Hanson, Karen 255, 258

happiness

as the measure of actions 96

and poetry 97–8

Hardy, Thomas 227

Harper, George McLean 197

Hartley, David 61, 233–4

influence on Wordsworth 60

Hartman, Geoffrey 17, 88, 116, 118, 184, 185, 236, 252

Harvard Divinity School, Wordsworth’s religious influence 236–7

Harvard Divinity School ‘Address’ (Emerson) 236, 237

Harvey, W. J. 261

Hawkshead Grammar School x, 6

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 237

Hayden, John O. 246, 249, 251

Hazlitt, William 18, 21, 168, 228

criticisms of Wordsworth 18

criticisms of Wordsworth’s attitudes towards the French Revolution 235

criticizes Wordsworth’s philosophy 231

influenced by Wordsworth’s views on conscience in The Borderers 32

and poetic craft 108–9, 116

Wordsworth’s egotism 153

Healey, George Harris 262

Heine, Christian Johann Heinrich 235–6

Hemans, Felicia, lack of domesticity 125–6, 136

Henley, Elton F. 262

Herbert (The Borderers) 31

Herbert, George 49

Herrick, Robert 49

Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian 250

Hickey, Alison 254

The Hidden Wordsworth (Johnston) 2, 138, 196, 207, 218, 264

Hill, Alan G. xx, xxi, 4, 250, 251

Hirsch, E. D. 233

Histoire Générale et Impartiale des Erreurs 203, 215

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (Stephen) 232–5

Hodgson, John A. 152

Holcroft, Thomas 198, 213

holism, and attention to scientific detail 229, 236

Holland 15

Homer, epics 73

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Tennysonian ideas 159

understanding of poetry 149

Horace 22

human suffering, and reconciliation, in The Recluse 77–9

Humphreys, James (American publisher of 1802 Lyrical Ballads) 232–5, 244

Hunt, Leigh 227

Hutchinson family

life at Grasmere 130

Wordsworths visit on return from Goslar 45

Hutchinson, Sara 139

critical appreciation of Lyrical Ballads 38

criticisms of Wordsworth’s relationship with Dora 139–40

domestic relationship with Wordsworth 138, 139

extended family at Grasmere 83

life at Dove Cottage 133

as symbolic of feminine domesticity 135–6

Hutchinson, Thomas 246

Hymns for Children (Dix) 238

Hyperion (Keats), introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

idealism, Coleridge’s views 174–8

ideas

association 45

and progress 60

misunderstanding because of changes in

culture 151, 163

identity, and imagination 64

‘If’ (Kipling) 180

Iliad (Homer), epic nature 73

imagination

and identity 64

importance in Wordsworth’s work 14

and individuality, ‘Hart-leap Well’ 69

and literature 61

and poetry, Wordsworth’s views xvii

imagination (cont.)

and terror, Burke’s ideas influence Wordsworth 60

in The Prelude 62–3

theology, Wordsworth’s views 173–4

Wordsworth’s views xiv–xviii

Imagination and Fancy: Complementary Modes in the Poetry of Wordsworth (Scoggins) 253

Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’ (Hickey) 254

independence, and dependence 188–9

individual integrity, and social responsibility, ‘Prospectus’ to The Recluse 84

individuality, and imagination, ‘Hart-leap Well’ 69

individuals, relationship with natural world

The Insistence of History: Revolution in Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire (Friedman) 255

inspiration, theme 16

Interpretation: Theory and Practice (ed. Singleton) 258

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Bentham) 92

Ireland 15

Isabel (‘Michael’) 47

Isle of Wight 208, 212, 218, 224

Wordsworth visits 15

Italy 15

Jackson, Geoffrey 250

Jacobin Club 204, 211, 215, 216, 224

Jacobus, Mary 253, 257

Jakin, Bob (Mill on the Floss) 135

James, Henry, views of Middlemarch 229

Jarvis, Robin 258, 259

Jaye, Michael C. 250, 254

Jefferson, Thomas 232, 234

Jeffrey, Francis 187

criticisms of The Excursion 13, 87

criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 12, 53

criticisms of Wordsworth 182, 184–5, 231

Jerusalem (Blake), introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

Jesus Christ 151

Joan of Arc (Southey) 36–7

Johnson, Barbara 124

Johnson, Dr Samuel

critical attitude towards Milton 101

on epitaphs 105

Milton’s use of blank verse 114

Johnson, Joseph (publisher) 27

possibly persuades Wordsworth not to publish Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff 94

Johnston, Kenneth R. 2, 9, 128, 138, 143, 153, 196, 207, 218, 254, 255, 258, 261, 264

Jones, Alun R. 261

Jones, Mark 260, 262

Jones, Robert (College friend with whom Wordsworth went on a Continental walking tour) x, 27

Jonson, Ben 49

Jordan, John E. xx, 250, 253

Journals (George Fox) 55

Journals (Wesley) 55

joy, ode to, theme in ‘Home at Grasmere’ 79–80, 81

Julia (Prelude) 68

Kant, Immanuel 236–7

development of the liberal tradition 102

negative defence of religion 107

Keach, William 243

Keats, John xii, 2, 17, 50, 67, 69, 158, 228, 235

axioms in philosophy 146

criticisms of The Excursion 13

influence of the French Revolution on Wordsworth 202, 203, 214, 215

introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

on perception 147

poetic style 152

views about ‘Tintern Abbey’ and the influence of the French Revolution 209–10, 222–3

Wordsworth’s egotism 153

Wordsworth’s poetical vocation questioned 148

Keatsian 159

Keble, John 1, 4

The Keepsake (gift annual) 135

Kendal and Windermere Railway 90, 91

Kerrigan, John 257

Keswick 15

Ketcham, Carl H. xx, 250

Kindergarten Movement 237

King, Edward (Lycidas) 151, 163

King Lear (Shakespeare) 20

Kipling, Rudyard 180

Kirkland, Caroline 240

Kishel, Joseph F. xx, 250

Knight, William 158, 246

knowledge, nature, Wordsworth’s views xviii

Kroeber, Karl 260, 262

The Lady of Shalott (Tennyson) 136–7

Lake District 15

importance 45

importance for Wordsworth 12

Wordsworth opposes extension of the railways 242

Wordsworth’s conception 19–20

‘Lake School’ of poetry 6

Lancaster, Joseph, educational theories 107

Landon, Carol xx, 22, 249

Landor, W. S. xvii

landscapes, and conversion 55

Langan, Celeste 259

language, power, Wordsworth’s views xvii

‘“Laodamia” and the Moaning of Mary’ (Barrell) 256

Last Poems, 1821–1850, By William

Wordsworth (Curtis, Denny-Ferris, and Heydt-Stevenson) 250

le Fleming, Lady, attempts to evict

Wordsworths from Rydal Mount 133

Leaves of Grass (Whitman) 74, 241

Leech-Gatherer (‘Resolution and Independence’) 17

portrayal 176

Legouis, Émile 196, 206, 207, 216, 217

Leopold, Aldo 186

Letters Of William Wordsworth: A New Selection (ed. Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 2: The Middle Years, Pt 1: 1806–1811 (rev. Moorman) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 3: The Middle Years, Pt 2: 1812–1820 (rev. Moorman and Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 4: The Later Years, Pt 1: 1821–1828 (rev. Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 5: The Later Years, Pt 2: 1829–1834 (rev. Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 6: The Later Years, Pt 3: 1835–1839 (ed. Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth 7: The Later Years, Pt 4: 1840–1853 (ed. Hill) 251

The Lettersof William and Dorothy Wordsworth: A Supplement Of New Letters (Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (ed. Hill) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (ed. de Selincourt) 251

The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Early Years, 1787–1805 (rev. Shaver) 251

Levinson, Marjorie 7, 255, 256

Liberty Party 239

Life of Milton (Johnson) 114

Lindenberger, Herbert 252

Literary Criticism: A Short History (Wimsatt) 109

literature, and imagination 61

Liu, Alan 256

Locke, John 59, 146

loco-descriptive poetry 26–8

Logan, James Venable 262

logical faculties, and poetry, Wordsworth’s views xviii

London

Wordsworth visits 15

Wordsworth’s relationship with his environment reflected upon in The Prelude 190, 193

London Revolution Society 204, 215

Longman, publication of The Convention of Cintra 90

Lonsdale, Lord (first)

lawsuit regarding John Wordsworth’s estate 203, 215

refusal to pay debt to John Wordsworth 5

Lonsdale, Lord (second)

dedicatee of The Excursion 13

Wordsworth’s friendship with 6

Losh, James 75, 76, 77, 79, 84

Louis XVI (king of France)

deposition 204

execution x, 28, 31

L’Ouverture, Toussaint (leader of slave revolt) 239

lower classes, language used by Wordsworth and parodied by Robert Rose 233–4

Luke (‘Michael’) 47

Lycidas (Milton), comprehension in the twenty-first century 151, 163

Lyon, Judson Stanley 253

‘lyrical’, and ‘ballad’ 182

‘A Lyrical Ballad’ (Rose) 234

Lyrical Ballads see Wordsworth, William, works, Lyrical Ballads

Macaulay, Thomas, criticism of The Prelude 58

Macbeth, Wordsworth’s identification with 65

Macbeth (Shakespeare) 31, 209, 221

McConnell, Frank D. 252

McFahern, Patricia 263

McFarland, Thomas 256, 259

McGann, Jerome J. 7, 234, 255

criticisms of Wordsworth 184–5

Machin, Richard 256

Mackenzie, R. Shelton 235

McKusich, James C. 259

McMaster, Graham 260

Madame Bovary (Flaubert), development of taste 99

Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth’s Narrative Experiements (Bialostosky) 253

The Making of Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1785–1798 (Sheats) 252

Malta xii

Coleridge’s visit (1804) 174

Malthus, Thomas 96

An Essay on the Principle of Population 40

Man, Paul de 258

Mann, Horace, educational reforms, Massachusetts 237

Manning, Peter 124, 135

Mant, Richard 18

Margaret (The Ruined Cottage) 33, 34–5, 36, 77, 78, 129, 165, 195, 234

Mariana (Tennyson) 136

Marks, Herbert 255, 258

Martineau, Harriet, Wordsworth’s domesticity 134

Marvell, Andrew 27

Mason, Michael 250

the material, and spiritual 65–6

Matilda (The Borderers) 208, 219

Mellor, Anne 256

Mémoires d’outre-tombe (Chateaubriand) 227

Memoirs of William Wordsworth (Christopher Wordsworth) 114

reception in America 231

references to Annette Vallon 196–7

Memorial (to the Legislature of Massachusetts Protesting against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons) (Dix) 238, 241

mental health, Wordsworth’s influence on American mental health reforms 238

Middlemarch (Eliot) 6–7

Henry James’s views 229

spiritual and the material 66–7

The Mill on the Floss (Eliot)

development of taste 99

domesticity 135

Mill, John Stuart 18, 226

Milton (Blake), introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

Milton, John 20, 42, 46, 48, 61, 67, 237

comprehension in the twenty-first century 151, 163

critical standing in literary taste 100, 101

epic themes superceded by Wordsworth’s concepts in The Recluse 76

and the epic tradition 73

influence of sonnets on Wordsworth 50

Paradise Lost xiv

parallels to The Prologue 62–3

poetic metre 115, 123

use of blank verse 114

views of rhyme 117

vision of human destiny on leaving Paradise compared to Wordsworth’s return to Grasmere 80

Wordsworth aims to surpass 84

Wordsworth regarded as Milton’s heir 173

Wordsworth’s superiority over 202, 214

because of his attitude towards women 240

Keats’s views 148

Milton’s Poetry of Choice and Its Romantic Heirs (Brisman) 258

mind, strength, Wordsworth’s views xvii

The Minstrel (Beattie) 231

The Mirror and the Lamp (Abrams), Wordsworth’s poetic craft 113

monarchy, and republicanism 95–6

Montagu, Basil

and parenthood 210, 223–4

radicalism influenced by Godwinianism 199, 200, 213, 214

Montgomery, James 20

Monthly Literary Recreations, Byron’s criticisms of Wordsworth (July 1807) 13

Moorman, Mary xx, 158, 251, 263

morality

and reputation 94–5

Wordsworth’s views xiv

Mortimer (The Borderers) 164, 201, 208, 209, 214, 218, 220, 223–7

conscience 32

‘Mr. Wordsworth’ (The Spirit of the Age)(Hazlitt) 18

Muir, John (American environmentalist) 3, 232, 241–2

Murdoch, John, Wordsworths’ life at Dove Cottage 130

Murphy, John 255, 256

The Music of Humanity: A Critical Study of Wordsworth’s ‘Ruined Cottage’ incorporating Texts from a Manuscript of 1799–1800 (Jonathan Wordsworth) 247, 250

mythology, relationship with science 235

Naess, Arne, ‘deep’ ecology 185

‘Naming of Places’ 46

Napoleon Bonaparte 28, 87

and the Convention of Cintra 90

crowned emperor (1804) xii

Wordsworth’s account about in The Convention of Cintra inaccurate 93

narrative

lack of importance 40–2

lack of, in Lyrical Ballads 47

National Library of Scotland, discovery of manuscript of ‘Imitation of Juvenal’ 196

National Trust (England) 3, 180, 185, 242

natural objects, symbolic potential parodied, in Lyrical Ballads 168

natural truth, and poetry 174–8

natural world

numinousness 27

relationship with 186

nature

concept 180

in Lyrical Ballads 181–2

more important than God 42

and personhood 182

in The Recluse, ‘Prospectus’ 84–5

and Wordsworth 3, 180–2

criticisms 184–6

criticisms of egotism 182, 185

Nature (Emerson) 236, 237, 241

Naturphilosophie (Schelling) 227

Nether Stowey (Somerset) 163, 196

New Historicism, and Romanticism 184–5

Newlyn, Lucy 258, 259

Newton, Isaac 146

Nichol Smith, David 180

Norris, Christopher 256

Norton, Andrews 236

Norton Anthology of English Literature (Abrams) 247

Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson) 234

novel, development, and its effects on Wordsworth’s poetry and prose 92–3

Observations on Man (Hartley) 60, 234

odes 50

Odyssey (Homer), epic nature 73, 152

The Offering (1829) 236

‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ (Keats) 50

On Wordsworth’s Prelude (Lindenberger) 252

One Life theology 167, 171

Onorato, Richard J. 263

Orpheus 25, 35

Osborn, Robert xix, 250

Ossian, popular literary standing 101

Oswald, John (Scottish radical) 211, 224

Owen, W. J. B. xix, xx, 91, 92, 93, 247, 250, 251

on the non-publication of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff 94

Oxford University

gives honorary degree to Wordsworth xiii

Wordsworth’s doctorate 225–6

Pace, Joel 4

Page, Judith W. 257

Paine, Thomas 58, 61, 96, 204, 216

Rights of Man 93

and universal rights 240

Palgrave, Francis 43

Panopticon 92

pantheism 25

Pantisocracy 164

Paradise Lost (Milton) xiv, 20, 42, 237

epic nature 73

parallels with The Prelude 62–3, 67

poetic metre 115, 123

vision of human destiny on leaving

Paradise compared to Wordsworth’s

return to Grasmere 80

Wordsworth aims to surpass 84

Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader (Newlyn) 258

parish workhouses, theme in ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ 77, 78

Parker, Theodore 236

Parrish, Stephen Maxfield xix, 10, 120, 178, 247, 248, 249, 253

on Wordsworth’s poetic craft 109

passion, and poetic metre 115–22

The Pastor (The Excursion) 87

pastorals 46–7

form 50

‘Michael’ 47–8

Pater, Walter 117–18, 201, 227

and Wordsworth’s poetic imagination 111

patriotism, and domesticity 126–30

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer 236, 237

America’s loss of soul with industrialization 242

appreciation of Wordsworth and interest in feminism 240

educational reforms influenced by Wordsworth 237–8

Wordsworth’s importance 244

Pedlar (The Ruined Cottage) 33, 34–5, 36, 78, 128, 129, 167

philosophy 142

Peek, Katherine M. 260

Pennsylvania Ledger 232

perceiving, and seeing, Wordsworth’s views xvii

perceptions, of the world 17

Percy, Thomas, popular literary standing 101

periodicals, effects on Wordsworth’s prose and poetry 92, 93, 175

Perry, Seamus 260

personhood, and nature 182

Peter Bell the Third (Shelley) 64

Pétion, Jérome 204, 215–16

Philanthropist (proposed radical monthly magazine), Wordsworth’s plans for 5

A Philosophical Enquiry (Burke) 60

Pinch, Adela 120

Pinion, F. B. 263

Pite, Ralph 3

Pitt the Younger, repressive approach to sedition promotes concepts of pastoral retreats 75

‘The Platonism of Wordsworth’ (Shorthouse) 152

The Pleasures of Imagination (Akenside) 144, 231

Pluto 25

Poems (Burns) 23

Wordsworth’s reading 22

Poems (Thelwall) 75

The Poet (The Excursion) 87

The Poet (The Ruined Cottage) 33

poetic craft 107, 108–13, 124

and autobiography 122–3

poetic metre 50, 113–15

and passion 115–22

Wordsworth’s views xviii

Poetical Register, criticisms of Poems, in Two Volumes 53

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (ed. de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire) 249

poetry

cultural standing in the late eighteenth century 22

ends of xv, xvi, xvii

and feeling, Wordsworth’s views xiv–xv, xvi, xvii

and happiness 97–8

and imagination xvii

lasting nature in the appeal to the heart, Wordsworth’s views xviii

and logical faculties xviii

and natural truth 174–8

and prose xv

and reverence for God xvi

and science 98, 235–6

subject matter xiv

and truth xvi

Wordsworth’s views xvii

Poetry, Language and Politics (Barrell) 256

poets

characteristics xv, xvi

individuality, introduction into the epic tradition 73–4

role, in ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 48–9

as teachers xvi

Political Justice (Godwin) 8, 30–1

freedom and rationalism 60

influence on Wordsworth 162, 198–200, 201, 213, 214

political liberties, Wordsworth’s concerns with in Descriptive Sketches 27–8

The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries (Roe) 256

Pollard, Jane (friend of Dorothy) 24, 126

Poole, Thomas 233

poor, rural poor, displacement by Pitt’s war against France in The Ruined Cottage 77

Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) 7

Pope, Alexander 23, 27, 46, 235

on epitaphs 105

poetic metre 121

Popular Letters to Mothers (Sigourney) 240

popular taste, and epitaphs 104–6

Post-Structuralist Readings of English Poetry (ed. Machin and Norris) 256

Potts, Abbie Findlay 250

Power and Consciousness (ed. Cruise O’Brien and Vanech) 254

pre-existence, theme, Ode: Intimations of Immortality 157

The Prelude, Theory in Practice (ed. Wood) 261

Prickett, Stephen 253, 259

Pride and Prejudice (Austen), Elizabeth Bennet’s unfeminine behaviour 136

Priestley, Joseph 58, 94, 204, 216, 234, 236

corporeality of thought 64

Primer of English Literature (Brooke) 148

progress, and the association of ideas 60

Prometheus Unbound (Shelley), introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

Prophetic Memory in Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sonnets (Rylestone) 254

prose, and poetry, Wordsworth’s views xv

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (ed. Owen and Smyser) 251

psychological truth, in The Ruined Cottage 33–6

Public Record Office, correspondence

relating to investigation of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s suspected espionage 196

publication, Wordsworth’s dislike of xiv

Quarterly Review (Tory periodical) 8

The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry (Wolfson) 257

Quillinan, Edward 140

Racedown (Dorset) xi, 15, 30

Coleridge visits 33, 35

Wordsworth composes The Borderers 31

Rader, Melvin 152

railways 6, 242

Rajan, Tilottama 258

Rampside xi

Ramsey, Jonathan 256

The Rape of the Lock (Pope) 27

rationalism, in Adventures on Salisbury Plain 33

Re-Reading The Excursion (Bushell) 254

Reading Romantics: Text and Context (Manning) 124

recluses, concept 75

Recollections (De Quincy), Wordsworth’s reputation 226

reconciliation, and human suffering, in The Recluse 77–9

Record of a School Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture (Peabody) 237, 241

Rectory (Grasmere) xii

Reed, Arden 258

Reed, Henry (American editor of Wordsworth’s works) 231, 232, 233

Reed, Mark L. xix, 11, 243, 247, 250, 262, 263

Wordsworth’s importance 244

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke) x, 8, 62, 94

individual’s relation with nature 190

Reform Bill (1832) xiii, 6, 7

Rehder, Robert 257

Reiman, Donald H. 254

Religious Musings (Coleridge) 35

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), popular literary standing 101

republicanism, and monarchy 95–6

reputation, and morality 94–5

Rethinking Historicism: Critical Readings in Romantic History (Levinson, Butler, McGann, and Hamilton) 255

Revision and Authority in Wordsworth: The Interpretation of a Career (Galperin) 254

‘Revision as Making: The Prelude and Its Peers’ (Jonathan Wordsworth) 249

Revolution and English Romanticism: Politics and Rhetoric (Hanley and Selden) 255

Reynolds, John Hamilton 202, 214

‘The Rhetoric of Temporality’ (Man) 258

Rhine river 15

Richardson, Samuel 92

Ricks, Christopher 110, 152–6

The Force of Poetry 124

The Rights of Man (Paine) 58, 93

river

poetic theme 11

theme 16

treated in architectural manner in Poems (1815) 14

theme in Wordsworth’s poetry 9

Rivers (The Borderers) 201, 203, 214, 215

character 96

Godwinite attitude to conscience 32

Robert (The Ruined Cottage) 34, 129

Robespierre, Maximilien xi, 30, 31, 93

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) 61

Robinson, Henry Crabb xviii, 7, 123, 178

accounts of domestic life at Rydal Mount after Dora Wordsworth’s death 140

influenced by Godwinianism 199, 214

tells Wordsworth that De Quincy thought that Wordsworth had a better wife than he deserved 139

Wordsworth’s domesticity 134

Roe, Nicholas 254, 256

Rogers, Samuel 178

Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity: Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique (Bourke) 257

Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (Bate) 259

Romantic Geography: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces (Wiley) 259

The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation (McGann) 255

Romantic Revisions (eds. Brinkley and Hanley) 249

Romantic Revolutions (eds. Johnston, Chaitin, Hanson, and Marks) 255, 258

Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom (Langan) 259

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel (Jarvis) 259

Romanticism

and New Historicism 184–5

and Wordsworth 7, 224, 237

critical reputation in Victorian Age 222–5

Romanticism and Feminism (Mellor) 256

Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Modalities of Fragmentation (McFarland) 259

Romanticism and Gender (Mellor) 256

Romanticism and Language (ed. Reed) 258

Romanticism and Masculinity: Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writings of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt (Fulford) 257

Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church (Prickett) 259

Romanticism, Writing and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude (Jacobus) 253, 257

Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760–1830 (Butler) 255

Rose, Robert, parodies Wordsworth’s use of lower-class language 234

Ross, Marlon 257

Rousseau, Jean Jacques 59, 61, 96

and childhood 60–1

development of the liberal tradition 102

nature of faith 104

negative defence of religion 107

politics 93, 94

Ruoff, Gene W. 254, 259, 261

rustic life, as subject of Lyrical Ballads xv

Rydal Mount xii, 4

domesticity 126, 133–7

Dorothy Wordsworth’s life 139

gardening 131

Wordsworth designs gardens 6

Rydal Mount Seminary 237, 240, 242

Rylestone, Anne L. 254

Sailor (Adventures on Salisbury Plain) 34

subconsciousness and its effects 30–1, 32

St John’s College (Cambridge), Wordsworth attends x, 5

Sales, Roger 255

Salisbury Plain xi

Salisbury Plain: A Study in the Development of Wordsworth’s Mind and Art (Welsford) 254

Sargent, John, American reception of Lyrical Ballads 233

The Satirist 53

Savoyard Vicar (Emile), profession of faith 104, 107

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 227, 232

science, and poetry 98, 235

Scoggins, James 253

Scotland 15–16

tour (1803) xi

poems included in Poems, in Two Volumes 52

Scott, John 117

Scott, Sir Walter 15, 16, 91, 229, 236

meets Wordsworth (1803) xi, xiii

The Seasons (Thomson) 27, 144

seeing, and perceiving, Wordsworth’s views xvii

Selden, Raman 255

Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire (Wilkinson) xii, 15

self, nature as seen in responsibilities to community 59–60

Selincourt, Ernest de xix, xx, 10, 158, 246, 247, 249, 250, 251, 263

1798: The Year of Lyrical Ballads (Cronin) 260

Seward, Anna 236

‘Sex and History in The Prelude (1805): Books ix to xiii’ (Spivak) 256

Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (Bate) 258

Shakespeare, William 20, 31, 46, 61, 101,209, 221–2

critical standing in literary taste 100, 101

Shaver, Chester L. xx, 251

Sheats, Paul 252

Shelley, Mary, criticisms of The Excursion 13

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 2, 64, 225

criticisms of The Excursion 13

introduction of the personal into the epic tradition 74

Shorthouse, J. H., understanding of Wordsworth’s poetry 151–2

Sierras, conservation 241

Sigourney, Lydia Huntley 239

The Simpliciad (Mant), parodies Poems, in Two Volumes 18

Simplon Pass, Wordsworth visits (1790) 82

Simpson, David 255

Singleton, Charles S. 258

Siskin, Clifford 256

slavery 167

Thomas Jefferson’s policies towards 234

Smith, Adam 96

Smith, Charlotte 27

Ethelinde, or The Recluse of the Lake 75

Wordsworth’s reading 22, 23

Smith, Elsie 260

Smyser, Jane Worthington xx, 91, 92, 93, 251

on the non-publication of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff 94

Snow, C. P., two cultures of poetry and science 98

social responsibility, and individual integrity, ‘Prospectus’ to The Recluse 84

society, in The Recluse, ‘Prospectus’ 84, 85

The Solitary (The Excursion) 87, 88

relationship with the natural world 186, 188

‘Song of Myself’ (Whitman) 74

sonnets 50

and autobiography 123

and domesticity 132–3

Southey, Edith, as symbolic of feminine domesticity 135, 136

Southey, Robert xi, xiii, 36–7, 164, 225–6, 236

death 6

Wordsworth and Coleridge mutually dislike

Spenser, Edmund 8, 20, 46, 49, 134

Spinoza, Benedict de 157

spiritual, and the material 65–6

Spivak, Gayatri 256

‘Spots of Time’ 16, 19, 128

Home at Grasmere 80

The Prelude 64–5

Two-Part Prelude 63

Stallknecht, Newton P. 152

Stam, David H. 262

Stanhope, Charles 204–5, 209–10, 216, 222

Stephen, Leslie 227, 235

assessment of Wordsworth 148

Wordsworth’s philosophy 232–5

Sterne, Laurence 228

Stevens, Wallace 143

Stillinger, Jack 2, 248

Stonehenge, possible druidic religious practices 28

Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession (Eilenberg) 253

Strange Seas of Thought: Studies in William Wordsworth’s Philosophy of Man and Nature (Stallknecht) 152

Stuart, Daniel (newspaper proprietor) 7, 90

subconsciousness, effects 30–1

Sumner, Charles 238

Swaab, Peter 260

swans

swan hunts, on Windermere 82

as symbols of Dorothy and William Wordsworth (Home at Grasmere) 131–2

theme in Home at Grasmere 81–2

Swinburne, Algernon 224

Swiss soldiers (Descriptive Sketches) 35

Switzerland

political liberties 27–8

portrayed in Descriptive Sketches 29