The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth

Richard Gravil is 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).Daniel Robinson is Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Widener University. He co-edited A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (1999) with Paula Feldman, and Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (2001) wih William Richey. He is the editor of Poems, The Works of Mary Robinson (2 vols, 2009) and author of Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (2014), William Wordswoth's Poetry: A Reader's Guide (2010), and The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (2011).

• Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: IntroductionGeoffrey Hartman: Genius LociRichard Gravil and Daniel Robinson: Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' (1802-1815) and 'Yew-Trees' (1804-1836), Poems of ImaginationPart I: Life, Career, and Networks1: Nicholas Roe: The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-18002: K. E. Smith: Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1800-18503: Felicity James: Wordsworth and Literary Friendship4: Brian Goldberg: Wordsworth as Professional Author5: C. E. J. Simons: Itinerant Wordsworth6: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth's Political OdysseyPart II: Poetry7: Quentin Bailey: The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842)8: Frederick Burwick: The Borderers (1796-1842)9: Daniel Robinson: Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, 179810: Susan J. Wolfson: 'Poem upon the Wye'11: Jason N. Goldsmith: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 180012: Gregory Leadbetter: The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes13: Michael O'Neill: 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'14: Matthew C. Brennan: Wordsworth's Characters15: Peter J. Manning: The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems16: Daniel Robinson: The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer17: Fiona Stafford: Wordsworth's Poetry of Place18: Pamela Woof: Wordsworth's Later PoetryPart III: 'The Recluse'19: Richard Gravil: The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems20: Paul H. Fry: The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage'21: Anthony John Harding: The 'I' in The Prelude22: Mark J. Bruhn: The Prelude as a Philosophical Poem23: Philip Shaw: The Prelude as History24: Jacob Risinger: The Excursion as Dialogic PoemPart IV: Poets and Poetics25: Jonathon Shears: Wordsworth's English Poets26: Duncan Wu: Wordsworth and Sensibility27: Raimonda Modiano: Wordsworth's Theory of Poetry28: Alexander Schlutz: Wordsworth and Coleridge on Imagination29: Ruth Abbott: Wordsworth's Prosody30: Charles Mahoney: Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre31: Don Bialostosky: Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies in his Experimental PoemsPart V: Inheritance and Legacy32: John Cole: Wordsworth and Classical Humanism33: Allison Dushane: Wordsworth and Enlightenment Philosophy34: Marilyn Gaull: Wordsworth and Science35: James A. W. Heffernan: Wordsworth and Landscape36: Terry McCormick: Wordsworth and Shepherds37: Judith W. Page: Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality38: Stephen C. Behrendt: Wordsworth and Nation39: Adam Potkay: Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking40: Jonathan Roberts: Wordsworth on Religious Experience41: Peter Newbon: Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind42: James Castell: Wordsworth and the 'Life of Things'Part VI: Aspects of Reception43: Matthew Scott: Wordsworth among the Romantics44: Richard Gravil: 'Intimations' in America45: John Powell Ward: Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets46: Andrew Bennett: Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism47: Bruce E. Graver: Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth CenturyRecommended ReadingIndex

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth is an excellent resource for specialists and those writing about the poet, including advanced graduate students.