1. Wordsworth and the romantic era: The dawn of universal patriotism: William Wordsworth among the British in revolutionary France / David V. Erdman --

Wordsworth as satirist of his age / Stephen M. Parrish --

"The work of man's redemption": prophecy and apocalypse in romantic poetry / Joseph A. Wittreich, Jr. --

Romanticism: pleasure and play / Michael G. Cooke --

"Wordsworth" after Waterloo / James K. Chandler --

2. Wordsworth and the forms of romantic art: Wordsworth and the forms of poetry / Stuart Curran --

The triumphs of failure: Wordsworth's Lyrical ballads of 1798 / Kenneth R. Johnston --

Reclaiming Dorothy Wordsworth's legacy / Beth Darlington --

Wordsworth and Keats / Jack Stillinger --

Beyond the imaginable: Wordsworth and Turner / Karl Kroeber --

Two dark interpreters: Wordsworth and De Quincey / Jonathan Wordsworth --

Wordsworth's hedgerows: the infrastructure of the longer romantic lyric / Thomas McFarland --

3. The heritage of the age of Wordsworth: Wordsworth and the Victorians / Carl Woodring --

Wordsworth in America / David Simpson --

1800 and the future of the novel: William Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and the vagaries of literary history / Gene W. Ruoff --

"The very culture of the feelings": Wordsworth and solitude / Morris Dickstein.