The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworthscholarship.This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19thand 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

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