Wordsworth: An Inner LifeISBN: 978-1-4051-1369-4
Paperback
396 pages
September 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Illustrations vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgments xii
A Note on Texts xiv
Abbreviations xv
1 ‘Perhaps my pains might be beguil’d 1
2 ‘In black Helvellyn’s inmost womb’ 20
3 ‘Charg’d by magic’ 43
4 ‘The world is poisoned at the heart’ 69
5 ‘Their life is hidden with God’ 88
6 ‘The vital spirit of a perfect form’ 118
Part I: October 1798-April 1799 118
Between Parts I and II: April-May 1799 134
Part II: May-December 1799 146
7 ‘Serious musing and self-reproach’ 167
8 ‘I yearn towards some philosophic song’ 189
9 ‘That vast Abiding-place’ 210
10 ‘I only look’d for pain and grief’ 231
11 ‘Forbearance & self-sacrifice’ 257
12 ‘O teach me calm submission to thy will’ 275
Epilogue 303
Appendix: The White Doe of Rylstone (1808 Text) and it’s ‘Advertizement’ 316
Bibliography 347
Index 361