A Wordsworth Companion: Survey and Assessment

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Early Years and Adolescent Poetry (1770–87)....Pages 3-19
Cambridge, the Picturesque, and London (1787–91)....Pages 20-32
France, Annette, and Descriptive Poetry (1791–3)....Pages 33-47
War, the Salisbury Plain Poems, and The Borderers (1793–7)....Pages 48-64
Coleridge, Alfoxden, and Lyrical Ballads (1797–8)....Pages 65-83
‘Peter Bell’ and Reformation by Nature....Pages 84-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Germany and the North of England (1798–9)....Pages 99-108
Home at Grasmere (1800–2)....Pages 109-126
From Marriage to ‘Intimations’ (1802–4)....Pages 127-141
The Prelude and the Imagination (1804–5)....Pages 142-159
Fortitude in Life and Verse (1805–8)....Pages 160-176
Heroism Abroad and Grief at Home (1808–14)....Pages 177-191
The Excursion....Pages 192-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Activity and Alarm (1814–18)....Pages 211-222
New Enterprise and Sonnet Sequences (1818–21)....Pages 223-233
More Trachoma, Poetry, and Travel (1822–31)....Pages 234-251
To the Sunless Land (1831–50)....Pages 252-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Tradition and Innovation....Pages 271-281
Poetic Theory and Practice....Pages 282-300
Critical Reactions....Pages 301-315
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Conclusion....Pages 316-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-351