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Authors: Stephen Gill (Editor), Stephen Gill
ISBN-13: 9780521641166, ISBN-10: 0521641160
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Stephen Gill is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is the author of Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).
Provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets.
List of contributors | ||
Chronology of Wordsworth's life and works | ||
Wordsworth on poetry and imagination | ||
Sources and short forms of citation | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Wordsworth: the shape of the poetic career | 5 |
2 | Wordsworth's poetry to 1798 | 22 |
3 | Poetry 1798-1807: Lyrical Ballads and Poems, in Two Volumes | 38 |
4 | 'The noble living and the noble dead': community in The Prelude | 55 |
5 | Wordsworth and The Recluse | 70 |
6 | Wordsworth and the meaning of taste | 90 |
7 | Wordsworth's craft | 108 |
8 | Gender and domesticity | 125 |
9 | The philosophic poet | 142 |
10 | Wordsworth and Coleridge | 161 |
11 | Wordsworth and the natural world | 180 |
12 | Politics, history, and Wordsworth's poems | 196 |
13 | Wordsworth and Romanticism | 213 |
14 | Wordsworth and America: reception and reform | 230 |
15 | Textual issues and a guide to further reading | 246 |
Index | 265 |