Murderers, crazed widows, beggars, betrayed women—such are the pitiful figures who appear throughout Wordsworth's early narrative poetry. Analyzing the poet's

Twelve essays explore different manifestations of Romanticism in history, music, literature, the visual arts, and philosophy. Particular topics include the grow

Where others have oriented Wordsworth towards ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or - more recently - political repression, Paul H. Fry argues that underly