Wordsworth's Reading 1800–1815

A comprehensive 1996 listing of authors and books read by William Wordsworth during the years of his greatest poetry.

Duncan Wu (Author)

9780521496742, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 February 1996

338 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.67 kg

"...sure to become standard equipment for the coming century's Romanticists." James A. Butler, The Wordsworth Circle

Wordsworth's Reading 1800–1815, first published in 1996, lists all of the authors and (where possible) books known to have been read by William Wordsworth during the years which saw the composition of some of his greatest poetry, including Poems, in Two Volumes, The Thirteen-Book Prelude, The White Doe of Rylstone and The Excursion. The information is presented in an easy-to-use form, and includes dates of reading and full discussions of evidence. It draws on analyses of Wordsworth's manuscripts contained in current and forthcoming scholarly editions of his works, and incorporates hitherto unpublished research into the poet's intellectual development, including a thorough survey of manuscript materials. Together with Duncan Wu's companion-volume, Wordsworth's Reading 1770–1799, this is a most complete study of Wordsworth's reading, and it will be an essential reference tool for all scholars and students of his work.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Dates of readings
A note on texts
Wordsworth's reading 1800–15
Appendix I: Wordsworth's reading 1770–99
Appendix II: Wordsworth's reading 1800–15: some queries
Appendix III: the Longman accounts
Appendix IV: libraries used by Wordsworth
Appendix V: fugitive texts read by Wordsworth, 1800–15
Appendix VI: Tale Imitated from Gower: MS text
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]