Table of Contents

Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: Introduction
Geoffrey Hartman: Genius Loci
Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' and 'Yew-Trees', Poems of Imagination
Part I: Life, Career, and Networks
1: Nicholas Roe: The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1798
2: K. E. Smith: Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1799-1850
3: Felicity James: Wordsworth and Literary Friendship
4: Brian Goldberg: Wordsworth as Professional Author
5: Christopher Simons: Itinerant Wordsworth
6: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth's Political Odyssey
Part II: Poetry
7: Quentin Bailey: The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842)
8: Frederick Burwick: The Borderers (1796-1842)
9: Daniel Robinson: Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798)
10: Susan J. Wolfson: 'Poem upon the Wye'; or, 'Lines, written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, On revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798'
11: Jason N. Goldsmith: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800)
12: Gregory Leadbetter: The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes
13: Michael O'Neill: 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality'
14: Matthew Brennan: Wordsworth's Characters
15: Peter Manning: The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems
16: Daniel Robinson: The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer
17: Fiona Stafford: Poetry and Place from An Evening Walk to Yarrow Revisited
18: Pamela Woof: Wordsworth's Later Poetry
Part III: 'The Recluse'
19: Richard Gravil: The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems
20: Paul H. Fry: The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage'
21: Anthony John Harding: The 'I' in The Prelude
22: Mark J. Bruhn: The Prelude as Philosophy
23: Philip Shaw: The Prelude as History
24: Jacob Risinger: The Excursion as Dialogic Poem
Part IV: Poets and Poetics
25: Jonathon Shears: Wordsworth's English Poets
26: Duncan Wu: Wordsworth and Sensibility
27: Raimonda Modiano: Wordsworth's Poetic Theory
28: Alexander Schlutz: Wordsworth and Coleridge on 'Imagination'
29: Ruth Abbott: Wordsworth's Prosody
30: Charles Mahoney: Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre
31: Don Bialostosky: Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies
Part V: Inheritance and Legacy
32: John Cole: Wordsworth and Classical Humanism
33: Allison Dushane: Wordsworth and the Enlightenment
34: Marilyn Gaull: Wordsworth, Science, and Mathematics
35: James Heffernan: Wordsworth and Landscape
36: Terry McCormick: Wordsworth and Shepherds
37: Judith Page: Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality
38: Stephen C. Behrendt: Wordsworth and Nation
39: Adam Potkay: Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking
40: Jonathan Roberts: Wordsworth on Religious Experience
41: Peter Newbon: Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind
42: James Castell: Wordsworth and 'the Life of Things'
Part VI: Reception
43: Matthew Scott: Wordsworth among the Romantics
44: Richard Gravil: 'Intimations' in America
45: John Powell Ward: Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets
46: Andrew Bennett: Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism
47: Bruce E. Graver: Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century
Recommended Reading

About the Author

After a career teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Canada, Poland, and England, Richard Gravil is now Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Commissioning Editor of Humanities-Ebooks. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin's Press, 2000); Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: 1787-1842 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of
Sensibility (Humanities-Ebooks, 2010). For ten years he co-edited Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, and his numerous edited and co-edited books, including Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in
the English Novel (Ashgate, 2001) and The Republic of Poetry: Poetic Continuities from Bradstreet to Plath (a special issue of Symbiosis, 2003).

Daniel Robinson is Professor of English at Widener University. He is the co-editor (with Paula R. Feldman) of A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (OUP, 1999) and (with William Richey) of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); the editor of the complete poetry of Mary Robinson for The Works of Mary Robinson (Pickering and Chatto, 2009); and the author of William Wordsworth's Poetry
(Continuum, 2010), The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (Palgrave, 2011), and Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (University of Iowa Press, 2014). He is working on a new edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge for
Bloomsbury and is one of the team of editors working on OUP's forthcoming Anna Letitia Barbauld: Collected Works.

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth is an excellent resource for specialists and those writing about the poet, including advanced graduate students.
*Lisa Ann Robertson (University of South Dakota), European Romantic Review*

provides rich explorations of Wordsworths oeuvre, together with well-informed discussions of his inheritance, legacy and reception.
*Pamela Clemit, The Times Literary Supplement*

A long and overwhelmingly wondrous experience that touched me as very few works of secondary literature ever have.
*Leslie Brisman, Review 19*