San Antonio College Library

In spite of his knowing and writing about his loss of intuitive communion with nature, Wordsworth does not seem to have realized his loss in poetic power. As we shall see, his changing theory of poetry put greater and greater emphasis on study and hard thought, and on various other innocuous stimulants such as travel, and on technical skill. It is clear that, all his life, he felt that he had been given abundant recompense for the lost of his mystic...

A critical study of the poet's most enduring works and a general background of his life and artistic career.

This collection of original essays by sixteen distinguished scholars explores a wide range of relationships in the Age of Wordsworth: from radical politics in the 1790s to reactionary politics in the 1820; between genres as diverse as social satire and apocalyptic prophecy; the influence of Wordsworth on other writers and artists (John Keats, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas De Quincey, and Dorothy Wordsworth); and connections between Romanticism and Victorian...