The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth

After a career teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Canada, Poland, and England, Richard Gravil is now Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Commissioning Editor of Humanities-Ebooks. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin's Press, 2000); Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: 1787-1842 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (Humanities-Ebooks, 2010). For ten years he co-edited Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, and his numerous edited and co-edited books, including Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel (Ashgate, 2001) and The Republic of Poetry: Poetic Continuities from Bradstreet to Plath (a special issue of Symbiosis, 2003). Daniel Robinson is Professor of English at Widener University. He is the co-editor (with Paula R. Feldman) of A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (OUP, 1999) and (with William Richey) of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); the editor of the complete poetry of Mary Robinson for The Works of Mary Robinson (Pickering and Chatto, 2009); and the author of William Wordsworth's Poetry (Continuum, 2010), The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (Palgrave, 2011), and Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (University of Iowa Press, 2014). He is working on a new edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge for Bloomsbury and is one of the team of editors working on OUP's forthcoming Anna Letitia Barbauld: Collected Works.

PART I: LIFE, CAREER, AND NETWORKS; PART II: POETRY; PART III: 'THE RECLUSE'; PART IV: POETS AND POETICS; PART V: INHERITANCE AND LEGACY; PART VI: RECEPTION