The Task (Cowper) 22, 23, 27, 33, 36, 144
taste
Wordsworth’s views xvi
‘Teaching Wordsworth and Women’ (Mellor) 256
Temple School (Massachuesetts) 237
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, Victorian femininity 136
Tennysonian 159
terror, and the imagination, Burke’s ideas influence Wordsworth 60
‘Textual Primitivism and the Editing of Wordsworth’ (Stillinger) 248
references to himself as ‘the new Recluse’ 75
Theocritus 46
Thomas, Isaiah (American printer) 235
Thomas, Keith G. 152
Thomson, James 64
Thoreau, Henry David 86, 237, 241
Ticknor, George 238
‘Tintern Abbey: Two Assaults’ (Vendler) 256
‘To Wordsworth’ (Hemans) 125
Tobin, James Webbe xiv, 9, 75, 76, 77, 79, 84
Tooke, Horne 94
Tours, theme 14
Tours to the British Mountains (Wilkinson) 113, 124
Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Balads (Jacobus) 253
Tradition and the Individual Talent (T. S. Eliot) 101
Transcendental Club 237
Transcendentalists 230, 231, 236
Translations of Chaucer and Virgil (ed. Graver) 250
Trilling, Lionel 1
Tristram Shandy (Sterne) 228
Trott, Nicola 260
truth, and poetry, Wordsworth’s views xvi
Twice-Told Tales (Hawthorne) 237
‘Two Roads to Wordsworth’ (Abrams) 18
Tydeman, William 261
Tyson, Ann x
Tyson, Hugh x
Ullswater 51
The Unity of Wordsworth’s Poetry (Groom) 253
University of Durham, Wordsworth’s doctorate 225
The Unremarkable Wordsworth (Hartman) 252
Upon Appleton House (Marvell) 27
‘The Uses of Dorothy: “The Language of the Sense” in “Tintern Abbey”’ (Barrell) 256
Vallon, Annette 28, 31, 127, 131, 202, 215, 225
Vallon, Paul (brother of Annette Vallon) 114
Vanech, William Dean 254
Vaudracour (Prelude) 68
Vendler, Helen 256
‘Versioning Wordsworth: A Study in Textual Ethics’ (Parrish) 248
Victorians, critical appreciation of Wordsworth 225
The Village (Crabbe) 46
epics 73
Vision and Disenchantment: Blake’s Songs and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (Glen) 253
vocabulary, understanding 149
Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Thoreau) 86, 241
Wales 15
Walker, John, poetic metre 116
Walsh, James, spies on Wordsworth and Coleridge (1797) 196
The Wanderer (The Excursion) 87
Ward, John Powell 257
Warminski, Andrzej 258
Watson, Richard (Bishop of Llandaff) 95–6
pro-war beliefs 29
Weber, Samuel 258
Wedgwood, Josiah 127
Welsford, Enid 254
Wesley, John, Journals 55
Westmorland, George Fox’s impressions of 55
Wheatley, Phyllis, criticized for use of common language 234
White, William Hale 227
Whittier, John Greenleaf (Abolitionist) 239
Why the Lyrical Ballads? The Background, Writing and Character of Wordsworth’s 1798 Lyrical Ballads (Jordon) 253
Wilde, Oscar 18
Wiley, Michael 259
Wilkinson, Joseph 15
Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire xii
Wilkinson, Thomas 124
influence on Wordsworth 113
‘“Will No One Tell Me What She Sings?”: Women and Gender in the Poetry of Wordsworth’ (Ward) 257
Willey, Basil 158
William Wordsworth: A Critical Anthology (ed. McMaster) 260
William Wordsworth: A Life (Barker) 264
William Wordsworth: An Inner Life (Wu) 264
William Wordsworth: Intensity and Achievement (McFarland) 256
William Wordsworth: Selected Prose (ed. Hayden) 251
William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision (Jonathan Wordsworth) 17, 252
William Wordsworth: The Poems (ed. Hayden) 249
William Wordsworth: The Prelude (Gill) 252
William Wordsworth: The Prelude, The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) (ed. Jonathan Wordsworth) 250
William Wordsworth, A Biography: The Early Years, 1770–1803 (Moorman) 263
William Wordsworth, A Biography: The Later Years, 1803–1850 (Moorman) 263
William Wordsworth. A Life (Gill) 263
William Wordsworth, A Reference Guide to British Criticism, 1793–1899 (Bauer) 262
William Wordsworth and the Age of Romanticism 227
William Wordsworth (ed. Bloom) 261
William Wordsworth (ed. Gill) 248, 251
William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation (Haney) 257
‘William Wordsworth and the Real Estate’ (Sales) 255
Wilson, John xvi
Wimsatt, William 113
on Wordsworth’s poetic craft 109
Wisconsin, environmental degradation 241
Wollstonecraft, Mary, and domesticity 130
womanhood, theme 126
women
Woodring, Carl xx
Woodstock Books imprint, facsimiles of Wordsworth’s works 11
words, power, Wordsworth’s views xviii
Wordsworth (ed. Williams) 261
Wordsworth: A Collection of Critical Essays (Abrams) 260
Wordsworth: A Philosophical Approach (Rader) 152
Wordsworth: A Poet’s History (Hanley) 258
Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (Ferguson) 257
Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads: A Casebook (Jones and Tydeman) 261
Wordsworth: Romantic Theory and Revolution (Williams) 255
Wordsworth: The 1807 Poems (ed. Jones)
Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Early Years, 1770–1799 (Reed) 263
Wordsworth: The Fenwick Notes (ed. Curtis) 251
Wordsworth: The Prelude: A Casebook (ed. Harvey and Gravil) 261
Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Liu) 256
Wordsworth, Ann (née Cookson; Wordsworth’s mother), death x
Wordsworth, Anne-Caroline (daughter of Wordsworth and Annette Vallon) xi, 28, 68, 127, 225
Wordsworth and Annette Vallon (Legouis) 206, 207, 216, 217
Wordsworth and the Beginnings of Modern Poetry (Rehder) 257
Wordsworth, Catherine (Wordsworth’s daughter) xii, 133, 134
Wordsworth, Christopher (Wordsworth’s brother) 114, 126, 127
A Wordsworth Chronology (Pinion) 263
The Wordsworth Circle (periodical) 262
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (ed. Campbell) 261
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Lyrical Ballads (Prickett) 253
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Making of the Major Lyrics, 1802–1804 (Ruoff) 259
Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (Roe) 254
Wordsworth and Coleridge. Annotated Lyrical Ballads (Mason) 250
Wordsworth in Context (Fletcher and Murphy) 255
Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women (Page) 257
Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism (Bialostosky) 257
Wordsworth, Dorothy (‘Dora’) (Wordsworth’s daughter)
Wordsworth, Dorothy (Wordsworth’s sister) 139
addressed in ‘Tintern Abbey’ 42
assessment of Coleridge 178
at Racedown 30
birth at Cockermouth x
commentary on ‘The Solitary Reaper’ 111
criticized for lack of femininity 136
domestic relationship with Wordsworth 138–9
domesticity, at Dove Cottage 130, 131–2
Dove Cottage 45, 46, 133 importance for Wordsworth 12
effects of John Wordsworth’s (father) death 24
entry in journal relating to ‘Daffodils’ 51
extended family at Grasmere 83
Grasmere 130
The Grasmere Journals 126
landscape and conversion 55
illness 137
impressions about Coleridge
life at Grasmere (1800) 52
memories as basis of Wordsworth’s 1802 poems 49
move to Grasmere, as return to Paradise 79, 80, 81
origins of ‘Daffodils’ 113
poverty in Grasmere 82
Racedown xi
reads Milton’s sonnets to Wordsworth 50
relationship with William subject of critical speculation 2
role in ‘Tintern Abbey’ 235
Scottish tour (1803) 52
swan hunts in Windermere 82
tours the Wye Valley 169
visit to Goslar (1798–9) 43
visit to Scotland (1803) 15
visits Calais (1802) 50
visits Scotland with Wordsworth and Coleridge (1803) xi
and William Wordsworth, works, The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (various editors) xx–xxi
Wordsworth in England: Studies in the History of his Fame (Peek) 260
Wordsworth and the Figurings of the Real (Simpson) 255
Wordsworth, Freud and the Spots of Time: Interpretation in The Prelude (Ellis) 253
Wordsworth and the Great System (Durrant) 252
‘Wordsworth as Heartsworth; or Was Regicide the Prophetic Ground of those “Moral Questions”?’ (Erdman) 254
Wordsworth and the Human Heart (Beer) 253
Wordsworth, John (Wordsworth’s brother) 126, 130
Wordsworth, John (Wordsworth’s father)
Wordsworth, John (Wordsworth’s son) 136–7
birth xi
Wordsworth, Jonathan 10, 17, 174, 247, 249, 250, 252, 257
The Recluse and its composition 88
Wordsworth, Lives of the Great Romantics by their Contemporaries (Swaab) 260
Wordsworth, Mary (née Hutchinson; Wordsworth’s wife) 131, 139
Wordsworth, Milton and the Theory of Poetic Relations (Jarvis) 258
Wordsworth Now and Then: Romanticism and Contemporary Culture (Easthope) 259
Wordsworth and Philosophy: Empiricism and Transcendentalism in the Poetry (Thomas) 152
Wordsworth and the Production of Poetry (ed. Warminski and Chase) 258
Wordsworth and the Recluse (Johnston) 254
Wordsworth, Richard (Wordsworth’s brother) 126, 197
Wordsworth Scholarship and Criticism, 1973–1984 (Jones and Kroeber) 262
Wordsworth, Thomas (Wordsworth’s son) xii, 133, 134
Wordsworth Trust 10
Wordsworth, William
American reform movements 230–2
American social reforms 237–41
Anglo-American literary relations, Wordsworth’s importance 242–4
chronologies 263
and Coleridge 162
concordances 263
critical reception
critical reputation in Victorian Age 222–5
criticism
and Dorothy Wordsworth, works, The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (various editors) xx–xxi
faith, in ‘Tintern Abbey’ 42–3
French Revolution 197–8, 213–14
gaps in biography 196
human failings 2
individual works, criticism, reading lists 261–2
irresolution 88
letters
literary influence on America 235–6
love affair with Annette Vallon 196–7
on morality xiv
natural world, relationship with 186
poems
poetic metre 113
poetic style 152
poetic vocation 155
poetry
political subtext in writing Lyrical Ballads 48
political views xii, 2–3, 6–9, 93–102
prose
on publication xiv
role as saviour of the country, in The Recluse 88
self-creation in The Prelude 85
self-identity in The Recluse 75–6
suspected of espionage 196
works
Adventures on Salisbury Plain 30–1, 33, 34
Adventures on Salisbury Plain: Godwinianism 32, 162, 255
Adventures on Salisbury Plain: see also Salisbury Plain
‘The Affliction of Mary – of – ’ 49
Aldine edition (1892–3) 246
‘Alice Fell’ 49
‘Anecdote for Fathers: How the Art of Lying Might be Taught’ 40, 99
‘The Banish’d Negroes’ 239
Benjamin The Waggoner, By William Wordsworth (ed. Betz) xix, 250
The Borderers xi, xiii, xix, 31–3, 39, 40, 164
The Borderers: Coleridge impressed by
The Borderers: completion (1797–8) 39
The Borderers: individual’s relation with nature 189
The Borderers: influence of the Bourdon Case 208–9, 219–20, 221
The Borderers: origins in the French Revolution 203, 215
The Borderers: perception of motives and ends 92
The Borderers: as personal allegory 201–2, 214
The Borderers: possible references to Wordsworth’s involvement in the French Revolution 198
The Borderers: Preface, evil and humanity 96–7
The Borderers: publication after Wordsworth’s death and effect on his reputation 225
The Borderers: read to Coleridge
The Borderers: references to poetic craft 108
The Borderers: revisions and Wordsworth’s creativity 211, 224
The Borderers: Wordsworth reads to Coleridge 33
The Borderers: Wordsworth’s breakdown 162
The Borderers, By William Wordsworth (ed. Osborn) 250
The Brothers: as pastoral 46
The Brothers: poetic metre 114
The Brothers: political subtext 48
The Brothers: rendered into prose by Coleridge 114
Clarendon edition (1941–9) 246
Clarendon edition (revised: 1952–9) 246
collected works revised xiii
‘The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman’ 40
Composed or Suggested during a Tour in Scotland, 1833 16
‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ 50
The Convention of Cintra xii, xvii, 5, 90
The Convention of Cintra: inaccuracies 93
The Convention of Cintra: unwillingnes to publish for fear of political controversy 138
‘The Convict’ 45
Cornell Wordsworth Series (ed. Stephen Parrish) 10
‘The Daffodils’ see ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
Description of the Scenery of the Lakesxiii
Descriptive Sketches x, 15, 27–8, 35, 166, 171
Descriptive Sketches: sanctity of the Grande Chartreuse Monastery 241
Descriptive Sketches: Swiss political liberties 29
Descriptive Sketches (ed. Birdsall) xix
‘Dion’, references to poetic craft 108
‘The Discharged Veteran’, and The Recluse 71
Early Poems and Fragments, 1785–1797 (eds Landon and Curtis) xx, 22
Ecclesiastical Sketches xiii, 14
‘The Egyptian Maid’, references to poetic craft 108
‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ 53, 102, 103
‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’: appeal of religious poetry to the elderly 106
‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’: literary taste and its vagaries 100
‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’: poetry and appearances 93
‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’: pronouncements on taste 99
Essays upon Epitaphs xvii, 9, 90, 104–6
Essays upon Epitaphs: individual’s beliefs and taste 103–4
An Evening Walk x, 10, 15, 27, 28, 166
An Evening Walk: Life in Nature 143–4
An Evening Walk: and perception 147
An Evening Walk: revision at Windy Brow 30
An Evening Walk: themes 36
An Evening Walk: Wordsworth’s ‘dedication’ to poetry 12
An Evening Walk, by William Wordsworth (ed. Averill) 249
Eversley edition (1882–9) 246
The Excursion xi, xix, 7, 10, 11, 13, 53, 87–8, 103, 108, 149, 156, 187, 247
The Excursion: church theme 9
The Excursion: Coleridge’s expectations 233
The Excursion: composition 146
The Excursion: critical reception 13
The Excursion: design 11
The Excursion: dramatic propriety 157
The Excursion: failure to complete 9
The Excursion: individual’s relationship with the natural world 186, 188–9, 190
The Excursion: Keats applauds 148
The Excursion: mention of The Reclusein the preface 75, 76
The Excursion: nature concept 181
The Excursion: patriotism 230–2
The Excursion: philosophy 142, 145, 234
The Excursion: poetic craft 108
The Excursion: poetic vocation 155
The Excursion: poetry and science 236
The Excursion: Preface 14
The Excursion: Preface; references to The Prelude 9
The Excursion: Preface; Wordsworth’s categorization of his poetry 11
The Excursion: ‘Prospectus’ 76
The Excursion: publication (1814) xii
The Excursion: publication disappoints Coleridge 178
The Excursion: quoted by Coleridge as indicative of Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 161
The Excursion: and The Recluse 70, 71
The Excursion: and The Recluse: references in the preface 70, 72
The Excursion: religion and myth 235
The Excursion: system 144
The Excursion: themes 13
The Excursion (ed. Jaye) 250
‘Expostulation and Reply’ 40
‘Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg’ 178
‘The Faery Chasm’, individual’s relation with nature 194
‘The Female Vagrant’ 234
‘The Female Vagrant’: as conversion narrative 56
‘Glad sight wherever new with old’ 158
‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’ 31, 168
‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’: poetic metre 120
‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’: poetic metre; and passion 121
A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England xii, xiii, 15, 19–20, 106, 142, 194
Guilt and Sorrow 7
‘Hart-leap Well’: imagination and individuality 69
‘Hints for the Fancy’, individual’s relationship with nature 194
Home at Grasmere xi, 9, 45, 79–83, 87, 149, 249
Home at Grasmere: domesticity 131–2
Home at Grasmere: incompleteness 85
Home at Grasmere: individual’s relationship to the natural world 187
Home at Grasmere: marriage metaphor 92
Home at Grasmere: nature concept 181
Home at Grasmere: poetry and science 236
Home at Grasmere: and The Recluse 70, 71
Home at Grasmere: rural idyll 171
Home at Grasmere: Thoreau’s ideas prefigure 86
Home at Grasmere: Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 155
Home at Grasmere (ed. Darlington) xx
Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse, By William Wordsworth (ed. Darlington) 249
‘I griev’d for Buonaparte’ 50
‘I travell’d among unknown men’ 43
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ 19, 49, 51–2, 180
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’: poetic craft 112, 113
‘The Idiot Boy’: influence on Dorothea Lynde Dix 107
‘The Idiot Boy’: poetic metre 120
‘The Idle Shepherd-Boys’, as pastoral 46
‘Imitation of Juvenal’ 196
‘In Allusion to Various Recent Histories and Notices of the French Revolution’ 8
‘Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination of Boyhood and Early Youth’ 143
‘The Last of the Flock’ 181
Last Poems, 1821–1850 (ed. Curtis) xx
Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff x, 5, 31, 90, 94–6, 102
Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff : authority and its limitations 105
Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff : republicanism 230
Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff : Wordsworth’s inaccuracies as regards the French Revolution 93
Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns xii
‘Lines Composed at Grasmere’ 52
‘Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree’ 164–5, 181
‘Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree’: individual’s relationship with the natural world 186–8, 189
‘Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree’: nature concept 182
‘Lines suggested’, references to poetic craft 108
‘Lines written at a short distance from my house’ 181
‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ 40
‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’see ‘Tintern Abbey’
‘Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames’ 181
‘Lines Written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead’ x
‘London, 1802’ 50
‘London, 1802’: references to poetic craft 108
‘Lucy’ poems: composition possibly affected by Wordsworth’s life at Goslar 128
‘Lucy’ poems: death theme 26
‘Lucy’ poems: and domesticity 128
‘Lucy’ poems: patriotism 229
‘Lucy’ poems: ‘Strange fits of passion’, poetic metre and passion 118–20, 124, 125–6
Lyrical Ballads xi, 2, 17, 51, 108, 192, 236
Lyrical Ballads: (1798) 38–43, 52, 168–9
Lyrical Ballads: (1798); Advertisement xiv
Lyrical Ballads: (1798); critical reputation 38
Lyrical Ballads: (1798); themes 45
Lyrical Ballads: (1800) xi, xv, 11, 43–8, 171–2
Lyrical Ballads: (1800); poetic metre and passion used in ‘Tintern Abbey’ 115
Lyrical Ballads: (1800); ‘Preface’ 48
Lyrical Ballads: (1800); ‘Preface’; association of ideas 45
Lyrical Ballads: (1800); ‘Preface’; feelings more important than action and situation 41
Lyrical Ballads: (1800); symbolic importance 11–12
Lyrical Ballads: (1801) xi
Lyrical Ballads: (1801); ‘Preface’ xi
Lyrical Ballads: (1802) xv, 48–9
Lyrical Ballads: (1802); ‘Appendix on Poetic Diction’ 48
Lyrical Ballads: (1802); influence on William Cullen Bryant 235
Lyrical Ballads: (1802); ‘Preface’ xi, 48–9
Lyrical Ballads: (1802); reception in Philadelphia (America) 231, 232–5
Lyrical Ballads: ‘ballad’ applied to ‘Tintern Abbey’ 231
Lyrical Ballads: conception, Coleridge’s views 177
Lyrical Ballads: critical standing 53
Lyrical Ballads: development 10
Lyrical Ballads: female vagrant theme 29
Lyrical Ballads: Hazlitt’s criticisms 18
Lyrical Ballads: influence on mental health reform 238
Lyrical Ballads: literary taste 100
Lyrical Ballads: nature concept 181–2
Lyrical Ballads: and perception 146
Lyrical Ballads: poetic metre 114
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’ 16, 17
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; cosmopolitanism 235
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; effects on Wordsworth’s reputation 12
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; naturalistic axioms criticized by Coleridge 175
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; poetic metre 116–17, 118
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; poetic vocation 155
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; poetry and happiness 97, 98
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; poetry and prose 91
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; radicalism, effects on American reform movement 243
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface’; Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 158
Lyrical Ballads: ‘Preface of 1815’ 102
Lyrical Ballads: pronouncements on taste 99
Lyrical Ballads: prose, success in the marketplace 90
Lyrical Ballads: publication in America 244
Lyrical Ballads: taste and its development 100
Lyrical Ballads: universal rights 240–1
Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth regards them as discredited 13
Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 1797–1800 (eds Butler and Green) xx, 249
‘The Mad Mother’ 40, 45, 173, 181
Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820 xiii, 15
Memorials of a Tour in Italy, 1837 15
‘Michael, a Pastoral Poem’ 12, 28, 46, 47–8, 129, 242
‘Michael, a Pastoral Poem’: in Lyrical Ballads (1800) 172
‘Michael, a Pastoral Poem’: poetic metre 114–15
‘Miscellaneous Sonnets’, individual’s relation with nature 192–3
‘Moods of My Own Mind’ 12
‘My heart leaps up’ 13, 19, 52
‘My heart leaps up’: Andrew Norton’s sermon 236
‘A Night Piece’ 78
‘A Night Piece’: and The Recluse 71
Norton Critical Edition (ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill) 10
‘Now ye meet in the cave’, death theme 25
‘Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room’ 14, 50
‘Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room’: sonnet format 123, 132
‘The Oak and the Broom’, as pastoral 46
‘Ode’: 1815 21
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ xii, 8, 11, 13, 14, 19, 49, 50, 52, 149, 237–41
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’: and Abolitionism 239
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’: anti-sensuousness 174
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’: influence on educational ideas of Peabody and Amos Bronson Alcott 237
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’: pre-existence theme 157
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’: quietism 184
‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’: Wordsworth’s poetic development 22
‘Oh ’tis a joy divine on summer days’ 146
‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’ 7, 77, 78, 184, 234
‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’: equality theme 230
‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’: and The Recluse 71
Oxford edition (1895) 246
‘The Pedlar’: biographical nature 10
Penguin edition 246
‘The Pet Lamb’, as pastoral 46
Peter Bell: as conversion narrative 56
Peter Bell: self-created salvation 169
Peter Bell, By William Wordsworth (ed. Jordan) xx, 250
pirated American editions ensure Wordsworth’s connections with reform movements in America 231
‘The Poem to Coleridge’, inception of The Prelude 170
Poems: Chiefly of Early and Late Yearsxiii
Poems, 1807, sonnets 123
Poems 1815: ‘Essay Supplementary to the Preface’ xvii
Poems 1815: ‘Preface’ xvii
Poems 1815: ‘Preface’; literary taste and its vagaries 100
Poems 1815: thematic arrangement 13–14
‘Poems on the Naming of Places’ 12
Poems, in Two Volumes xii, xx, 2, 11, 15, 18, 38, 48–54
Poems, in Two Volumes: church theme 11
Poems, in Two Volumes: critical reception 52–4
Poems, in Two Volumes: development 10
Poems, in Two Volumes: Montgomery’s review 21
Poems, in Two Volumes: parodies 18
Poems, in Two Volumes: poetic imagination 111
Poems, in Two Volumes: poetry and science 236
Poems, in Two Volumes: Wordsworth’s poetic development 12
Poems in Two Volumes, and Other Poems, 1800–1807, By William Wordsworth (ed. Curtis) 249
Poetical Works (1849–50) 246
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (eds. de Selincourt and Darbishire) xx
The Prelude xi, xii, xiii, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 31, 51, 55–6, 67–8, 91, 142, 149, 166
The Prelude, 1798–99, By William Wordsworth (ed. Parrish) xix, 247, 250
The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850: Authoritive Texts, Context And Reception, Recent Critical Essays (ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, Abrams, Gill) 247, 250
The Prelude: (1798–9) 247
The Prelude: (1799) 2
The Prelude: (1799); religious outlook 173
The Prelude: (1805) 4, 11, 19, 232, 248
The Prelude: (1805); Coleridge as addressee 162
The Prelude: (1805); domesticity 126
The Prelude: (1805); nature’s healing power 3
The Prelude: (1805); poetic metre 116, 117
The Prelude: (1805); references to poetic craft 108
The Prelude: (1805); reflections on Godwin’s influence 30
The Prelude: (1805); reflections on Robespierre’s execution 30
The Prelude: (1850) 7
The Prelude: Boston edition 231
The Prelude: Bourdon Case 209, 222
The Prelude: Coleridge as its addressee 162
The Prelude: completion xii
The Prelude: composition 56–7, 58, 145
The Prelude: contributions towards during stay in Goslar (1798–9) 43
The Prelude: as conversation poem 61–2
The Prelude: as conversion narrative 57–9
The Prelude: critical study 2
The Prelude: criticized for Wordsworth’s egotism 185
The Prelude: development 10
The Prelude: E. P. Thompson’s suppositions as to Wordsworth’s reactions against Godwinianism 198, 213–14
The Prelude: effects of John Wordsworth’s death 24
The Prelude: epitaphs and the rationale for poetry 104
The Prelude: final revision xiii
The Prelude: The Five-Book Prelude (ed. Wu) 249, 250
The Prelude: The Fourteen-Book Prelude, By William Wordsworth (ed. Owen) 247, 250
The Prelude: Godwinianism 199–200, 214
The Prelude: ideas conflict 150–1
The Prelude: inception 170
The Prelude: independence concept 189
The Prelude: individual’s relation with nature 190–2, 193, 194
The Prelude: influence of the Bourdon Case 207–8, 218–19
The Prelude: language and its restraints on poetry 153
The Prelude: love affair with Annette Vallon 196
The Prelude: love of Nature combined with love of humanity 241
The Prelude: man’s place in the world 174
The Prelude: MS jj 57
The Prelude: and perception 147
The Prelude: philosophy 143
The Prelude: poetic craft and autobiography 122–3
The Prelude: poetic metre 115
The Prelude: poetic vocation 155, 156
The Prelude: poetry and science 236–7
The Prelude: ‘Preamble’, Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 155
The Prelude: prefigured in ‘Daffodils’ 51
The Prelude: as preparation for The Recluse 10
The Prelude: as preparation for The Recluse; and poetical intellectual development 59–61
The Prelude: publication after Wordsworth’s death and effect on his reputation 225
The Prelude: publishing history 2
The Prelude: radicalism left intact for American reform movement 243
The Prelude: reception in America 231
The Prelude: and The Recluse 71
The Prelude: spiritual and material 66, 67
The Prelude: ‘Spots of Time’ 64–5
The Prelude: and The Recluse 70–2, 73
The Prelude: thematic continuity 157
The Prelude: theology of the imagination 173–4
The Prelude: The Thirteen-Book Prelude (ed. Reed) xix, 248, 250
The Prelude: translation into French 228
The Prelude: Two-Part Prelude (1799) 58
The Prelude: Two-Part Prelude; and The Recluse 71
The Prelude: Two-Part Prelude; ‘Spots of Time’ 63
The Prelude: Two-Part Prelude; tensions within 153–4
The Prelude: vocabulary 149–50
The Prelude: Wordsworth leaves France because of lack of money 210, 223
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s affair with Annette Vallon 68
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s breakdown 162
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s ‘dedication’ to poetry 12
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s involvement in the French Revolution 196, 197, 198
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s self-creation 85
The Prelude, By William Wordsworth, The Fourteen-Book Prelude (ed. Owen) xix
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind, Edited from the Manuscripts with Introduction, Textual and Critical Notes (ed. de Selincourt and Darbishire) 250
The Prelude (Jonathan Wordsworth; 1995) 249
The Prelude (parallel text edition: 1926) 247
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (eds. Owen and Smyser) xx
The Recluse xi, 2, 9–10, 11, 13, 45, 51, 53, 57, 149, 174, 187, 236
The Recluse: approximate plan and chronology 71
The Recluse: Coleridge despairs of Wordsworth’s ‘small poems’ as counters to The Recluse 18
The Recluse: Coleridge’s plans for 158–9, 166–7
The Recluse: dedicated to Coleridge 171
The Recluse: ideas conflict 150–1
The Recluse: inception, at Dove Cottage 132
The Recluse: incompleteness 86–7
The Recluse: incompleteness and origins 75–9
The Recluse: incompleteness in The Excursion 87–8
The Recluse: irresolution 88
The Recluse: mission 87
The Recluse: as prefatory to The Prelude59
The Recluse: preparation (1797–8) 39
The Recluse: problems with 133
The Recluse: ‘Prospectus’ xi, 71
The Recluse: ‘Prospectus’; incomplete nature of The Recluse 83–6
The Recluse: ‘Prospectus’; incompleteness 86
The Recluse: ‘Prospectus’; poetry and science 236
The Recluse: ‘Prospectus’; Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 155
The Recluse: purpose 144
The Recluse: vocabulary 150
The Recluse: Wordsworth’s procrastination in completing 168
The Recluse: Wordsworth regards as an epic 46
The Recluse: and Wordsworth’s poetic vocation 143
The Recluse: work resulting from the move to Grasmere (1800) 79
Resolution and Independence 8, 12, 17, 175, 176
Resolution and Independence: Coleridge’s criticisms 177
The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets, individual’s relation with nature xiii, 8–9, 14, 193–4
The Ruined Cottage 2, 32, 33, 39, 40, 47, 77, 149, 247
The Ruined Cottage: development 10
The Ruined Cottage: domesticity 126
The Ruined Cottage: domesticity; and patriotism 128
The Ruined Cottage: first version xi
The Ruined Cottage: individual’s relation with nature 195
The Ruined Cottage: MS a 36
The Ruined Cottage: MS b 36
The Ruined Cottage: and perception 147
The Ruined Cottage: philosophy 143, 234
The Ruined Cottage: read to Coleridge
The Ruined Cottage: and The Recluse 71
The Ruined Cottage: revision (1797–8) 39
The Ruined Cottage: revision under Coleridge’s influence 165, 167
The Ruined Cottage: themes 36
The Ruined Cottage and The Pedlar (ed. Butler) xx, 249
‘Ruth’ 12
‘The Sailor’s Mother’ 49
‘St Paul’s’ 9
‘St Paul’s’: and The Recluse 71
Salisbury Plain xi, xiii, 2, 7–8, 28–30, 33, 39, 234
Salisbury Plain: development 10
Salisbury Plain: possible links to the Bourdon Case 209, 222
Salisbury Plain: publication after Wordsworth’s death and effect on his reputation 225
Salisbury Plain: rewriting xi
Salisbury Plain: rewriting as Adventures on Salisbury Plain 30
Salisbury Plain themes 36
Salisbury Plain: see also Adventures on Salisbury Plain
The Salisbury Plain Poems (ed. Gill) 248
The Salisbury PlainPoems of William Wordsworth: Salisbury Plain,or A Night on Salisbury Plain(including The Female Vagrant); Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain (ed. Gill) 250
The Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth (ed. Gill) xx
‘Scorn not the Sonnet’ 123
‘She dwelt among th’untrodden ways’ 43
Shorter Poems, 1807–1820 (ed. Ketcham) xx, 250
‘A slumber did my spirit seal’ 26, 43
‘The Solitary Reaper’: and the poetic imagination 111–13, 124
‘Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress’ x, 212, 224
Sonnet Sequences and Itinerary Poems, 1819–1850 (Jackson) 250
‘Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty’ 8
Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death (Wordsworth) 7
‘Steamboats and Railways’ 91
‘Strange fits of passion I have known’ 43, 44
‘The Sublime and the Beautiful’ xvii, 15, 251
‘The Tables Turned’ 3, 40, 168
textual studies, bibliography 246–9
The Tuft of Primroses, with Other Late Poems for The Recluse (ed. Kishel) xx
‘There was a Boy’ 12, 14, 17, 43
‘This Lawn’ xviii
‘The Thorn’ xiv–xv, 31, 120–1, 168, 181
‘Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland’ 50
‘Three years she grew in sun and shower’ 43
‘Tintern Abbey’ 7, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 42–3, 83, 142, 149, 181, 200–1, 214, 242
‘Tintern Abbey’: Coleridge’s Unitarian influence 169
‘Tintern Abbey’: as conversation poem 62
‘Tintern Abbey’: individual’s relation with nature 194
‘Tintern Abbey’: intellectualism 227
‘Tintern Abbey’: irresolution 88
‘Tintern Abbey’: Keats’s reading suggests the influence of the French Revolution on Wordsworth 202, 203, 214, 215
‘Tintern Abbey’: links with The Borderers 201–2, 214
‘Tintern Abbey’: in Lyrical Ballads (1800) 171
‘Tintern Abbey’: nature concept 182
‘Tintern Abbey’: pantheism 230
‘Tintern Abbey’: as pastoral 46
‘Tintern Abbey’: and perception 147
‘Tintern Abbey’: philosophy 45, 233, 235
‘Tintern Abbey’: poetic metre 114
‘Tintern Abbey’: poetic metre and passion 115, 120
‘Tintern Abbey’: political quietism 184
‘Tintern Abbey’: possible effects of the Bourdon Case 209–10, 222
‘Tintern Abbey’: possible references to Wordsworth’s involvement in the French Revolution 198
‘Tintern Abbey’: religious influence in America 236
‘Tintern Abbey’: tensions within 153
‘Tintern Abbey’: vocabulary 150
‘To a Butterfly’ 49
‘To a Butterfly’: holism and attention to scientific detail 237
‘To the Clouds’ 9
‘To the Clouds’: and The Recluse 71
‘To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth’ 194
‘To Thomas Clarkson, on the Final Passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade’ 239
‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture’ 50
A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England 15, 194
The Triad 139
The Triad: domesticity 126, 135
The Triad: domesticity; and femininity 135
The Tuft Of Primroses, With Other Late Poems For The Recluse, By William Wordsworth (ed. Kishel) 250
‘The Tuft of Primroses’ 9, 86–7
‘The Tuft of Primroses’: and The Recluse 70, 71
‘The Tuft of Primroses’: sanctity of the Grande Chartreuse Monastery 241
Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland 6
‘An Unpublished Tour’ 15
The Vale of Esthwaite x, 22, 27, 36
The Vale of Esthwaite: composition 24–5
The Vale of Esthwaite: death theme 35
The Vale of Esthwaite: reflects Wordsworth’s reactions to his father’s death 23, 25
Vaudracour and Julia 196
The Waggoner xii
‘Wars of York and Lancaster’, references to poetic craft 108
‘We Are Seven’: criticisms of egotism 183–4
The White Doe of Rylstone xii, xvii, xx, 16
The White Doe of Rylstone: domesticity 134
The White Doe of Rylstone, or, The Fate of The Nortons (ed. Dugas) 250
Wordsworth, William, Jr (Wordsworth’s son)
Wordsworth and the Worth of Words (Davies) 257
Wordsworthian Criticism: A Guide and Bibliography (Logan) 262
Wordsworthian Criticism 1945–59 (Henley and Stam) 262
Wordsworthian Criticism 1945–64 (Henley and Stam) 262
Wordsworthian Criticism 1964–1973: An Annotated Bibliography (Stam) 262
Wordsworthian themes, evolution at Alfoxden House 39–40
‘Wordsworth’s Crisis’ (Thompson) 196
Wordsworth’s Doctrine and Art in Their Historical Relations (Beatty) 152
Wordsworth’s Great Period Poems: Four Essays (Levinson) 255
Wordsworth’s Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement (Simpson) 255
Wordsworth’s Influence on Shelley: A Study of Poetic Authority (Blank) 259
Wordsworth’s Literary Criticism (ed. Owen) 251
Wordsworth’s Philosophical Poetry 1797–1814 (Hodgson) 152
‘Wordsworth’s Poems: The Question of Text’ (Gill) 249
Wordsworth’s Poems of Travel, 1819–42: ‘Such Sweet Wayfaring’ (Wyatt) 259
Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1787–1814 (Hartman) 17, 116, 118, 252
Wordsworth’s Pope: A Study of Literary Historiography (Griffin) 258
Wordsworth’s Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics (Chandler) 254
Wordsworth’s ‘Slumber’ and the Problematics of Reading (Caraher) 254
‘Working The Prelude: Foucault and the New History’ (Siskin) 256
world, animation through perceptions 17
A World of Difference (Johnson) 124
‘The Worst of Wordsworth’ (Parrish) 248
Wrangham, Francis xvii
‘Writing the Self/Self Writing: William Wordsworth’s Prelude/Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals’ (Mellor) 256
Wyatt, John 259
Yarrow 15
Yorkshire 15
Zall, Paul M. 249