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

Thomas Owens explores exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He exa

A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.

Wordsworth’s process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Ba

Ancient questions about the causes and nature of pleasure were revived in the eighteenth century with a new consideration of its ethical and political significa