"This is a Wordsworth we have never quite seen before."--Hermione Lee, The New York Times

A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.

Wordsworth's classical education presents an amazing paradox. Gifted teachers trained him in the full rigours of classical Latin and Greek. But Wordsworth's sch

This is the first extended study of Wordsworth's complex, subtle, and often conflicted engagement with the material and cultural legacies of monasticism. It rev