Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1800-1815

by Mark L. Reed

Overview

As a poet whose art developed in a remarkably coherent chronological pattern and whose overt use of his own life for the subject matter of his verse was unparalleled in extent, Wordsworth presents an especially compelling claim to such systematic treatment. This volume is the first step toward providing a chronology of his life and works.

An invaluable tool for students of this major writer and of the Romantic period generally, this book offers a rapid means of access to factual information for any type of study making use of either the dates or relative order of Wordsworth's writings or personal experiences. Based on unpublished as well as published materials, the main entries of the chronology present items of documented fact together with source references; a separate chronological listing of the writings is also provided. Discussions and arguments are confined to footnotes and appendices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674435339
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	02/05/1975
Edition description:	Reprint 2014
Pages:	795
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.69(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Short Forms of Citation

General Chronological List of Wordsworth's Writings

Chronology, 1741-1799

Appendices

I. References in Wordsworth's Writings to the Years before He Enters Hawkshead School

II. References in Wordsworth's Writings to Hawkshead and His Years in School There

III. Wordsworth's Earliest Poetic Composition

IV. The Dates of Several Early Translations

V. Four Notebooks: Their Use in Dating An Evening Walk and Other Early Composition

VI. The Dates of Certain Early Passages in MS Verse

VII. Wordsworth's Early Travels in Wales

VIII. The Visits of Hazlitt and Cottle, Spring 1798

IX. Three Notebooks: Alfoxden, Christabel

X. The Date of The Borderers

XI. The Date of Nutting

XII. The Dates of Salisbury Plain and Some Early Work on The Prelude

XIII. The Date of The Ruined Cottage

XIV. The Date of Juvenal

XV. The Dates of The Old Cumberland Beggar and Old Man Travelling

XVI. The Dates of Several Minor or Incomplete Poems of the Racedown Period

XVII. A Dismantled Early Notebook

Index to Writings

Subject Index