ABSTRACT
The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer's work and its place within a literary tradition.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer's death.
This new volume in the series includes criticism on the work of William Wordsworth during the period 1793-1820. Extremely wide-ranging in its coverage, over 250 diary extracts, letters, reviews, comments, and opinions by and about Wordsworth are gathered together here for the first time. An invaluable addition to any literary library.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part III|1 pages
LYRICAL BALLADS: REVIEWS, OCTOBER 1798-APRIL 1800
part IV|1 pages
LYRICAL BALLADS: OPINIONS, AUGUST 1800-FEBRUARY 1801
part V|1 pages
LYRICAL BALLADS: REVIEWS, FEBRUARY 1801-APRIL 1804
part VI|1 pages
POEMS, 1807: REVIEWS, 1807-1811
part VII|1 pages
POEMS, 1807: OPINIONS, 1806-1814
part VIII|1 pages
CONVENTION OF CINTRA: REVIEWS AND OPINIONS, 1809-1833
part IX|1 pages
THE EXCURSION: REVIEWS, 1814-1820
part X|1 pages
THE EXCURSION: SOME OPINIONS, 1812-1818
part XI|1 pages
POEMS, 1815 and THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE: REVIEWS AND OPINIONS, 1808-1820
part XII|1 pages
LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS: REVIEWS AND OPINIONS, 1816-1817
part XIII|1 pages
'THANKSGIVING ODE': REVIEWS AND OPINIONS, 1816-1817
part XV|1 pages
'THE RIVER DUDDON': REVIEWS AND OPINIONS, 1820-1821
part XVI|1 pages
LATER OPINIONS, 1815-1820