William Wordsworth: A Critical Study

William Wordsworth (b. 1770) English poet credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement with the publication of his Lyrical Ballads in collaboration with Coleridge. This book consists of eight well chosen articles highlighting his personal events and literary achievements. The chapters include the following: William Wordsworth: an Overview; England’s Samuel: Wordsworth in the “Hungry-Forties”; Wordsworth, Revision and the Blessed Babe: Reading the Mother in Book 2 of The Prelude; The Wages of Travel: Wordsworth and the Memorial Tour of 1820; Wordsworth and the Interpretation of Dreams; “Calm Oblivious Tendencies”: Wordsworth and the Long Term; Wordsworth on covenants, “Heart Conditions”, Primogeniture, Remains and the Ties that Bind in “Michael” and Elsewhere; Wordsworth and Current Memory Research; etc. This endeavour will prove highly useful and informative to one and all.