Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1.  Lines on the Lake District: Poetry and the Print Culture of Tourism

2.  “I Trace His Paths upon the Maps”: Cartographic Inscription in The Prelude

3.  “Points Have We All of Us Within Our Souls, / Where All Stand Single”: Poetic Autobiography and National Cartography

INTERCHAPTER. Native Accents, British Ground: Changing Landscape in the Visual Display of Speech

4.  Eighteenth-Century Emphasis and Wordsworthian Ontopoetics

5.  “—You Are Mov’d!”: Lyrical Ballads and the Printing of Local Feeling

6.  Measuring Distance, Pointing Address: The Textual Geography of the “Poem to Coleridge” and “To W. Wordsworth”

7.  Thelwall’s Therapoetics: Scanning The Excursion

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments