LSIT OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
FORWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE:HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
1 Biographical summaries
Chronological table
The Prelude as autobiography
Education
Political experience and change of attitude
Dorothy Wordsworth and her Journals
Collaboration with Coleridge
Appearance and character
2 Economic history
The Industrial Revolution
Agrarian distress
The Lake District
Wordsworthe's concern for the Poor,the displaced and the beggars
The older Wordsworth
3 Philosophy and religion
Locke and the sense of sight
Rousseau and the education of the sensibility
Godwin,the philosophical anarchist
Hartley and the association of ideas
Wordsworth's ‘Creed’1978-1805
Return to the Anglican Church
PART TWO:CRITICAL SURVEY
Early poems,1784-1793
An Evening Walk
Revolutionary Wordsworth,1793-1798
Lyrical Ballads
The Last of the Flock
Cermany,1798-1799
The Two April Mornings
The decision to go home,1799
Harl-Leap Well
A poet in retirement
Alice Fell
On tour
Stepping Westward
How to read The Prelude
From The Prelude
‘The set is now broken’,1805
Elegiac Stanzas
The Excursion
Surprised by Joy
Victorian precursor
The Primrose of the Rock
Is the Later poetry so bad?
PART THREE:REFERENCE SECTION
Wordsworth and his circle
A Wordsworth Gazetteer
Further Reading
General Index