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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)

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Author Biography: Stephen Gill

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).

Book Synopsis

Provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Chronology of Wordsworth's life and works
Wordsworth on poetry and imagination
Sources and short forms of citation
Introduction1
1Wordsworth: the shape of the poetic career5
2Wordsworth's poetry to 179822
3Poetry 1798-1807: Lyrical Ballads and Poems, in Two Volumes38
4'The noble living and the noble dead': community in The Prelude55
5Wordsworth and The Recluse70
6Wordsworth and the meaning of taste90
7Wordsworth's craft108
8Gender and domesticity125
9The philosophic poet142
10Wordsworth and Coleridge161
11Wordsworth and the natural world180
12Politics, history, and Wordsworth's poems196
13Wordsworth and Romanticism213
14Wordsworth and America: reception and reform230
15Textual issues and a guide to further reading246
Index265

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