Abbreviations

1799	William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 1798–1799, ed. Stephen Parrish (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977)
1805	William Wordsworth, The Thirteen-Book Prelude, ed. Mark L. Reed, 2 vols. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991). All citations are from volume I unless otherwise stated.
1850	William Wordsworth, The Fourteen-Book Prelude, ed. W. J. B. Owen (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985)
BL	Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. James Engell and W. Jackson Bate, 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983)
CL	Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956–71)
Excursion	William Wordsworth, The Excursion, ed. Sally Bushell, James A. Butler, and Michael Jaye (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007). Internal quotation marks are supplied for speech in block quotations and where relevant to argument.
EY	The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787–1805, 2nd ed., ed. Ernest De Selincourt, rev. Chester L. Shaver, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), vol. I
HC	John Thelwall, Letter to Henry Cline, Esq. on Imperfect Developments of the Faculties, Mental and Moral, as well as Constitutional and Organic; and on the Treatment of Impediments of Speech (London, 1810)
LB	Lyrical Ballads, and Other Poems, 1797–1800, ed. James Butler and Karen Green (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992)
PW	The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, ed. J. C. C. Mays, 3 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)
W Prose	The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. W. J. B. Owen and J. W. Smyser, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974)