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Contents
Preface
Events of Wordsworth's Life
Abbreviations
The Prelude
The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books
The Prelude of 1850 in Fourteen Books
MS. Drafts and Fragments, 1794-1804
The Beginnings of The Prelude: 1799 Drafts and Related Materials in
MS. JJ, October 1798
Fragments from Peter Bell. MS. 2, ca. February 1799
Draft Material from the Five-Book Prelude in MS. W, February 1804
Rejected Drafts for 1805, Book VIII, in MS. Y, October
Manuscripts of The Prelude, 1798-1850
The Texts: History and Presentation
General Editorial Procedures
Composition and Texts: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
Composition and Texts: The Prelude of 1805 and 1850
Context and Reception
References to The Prelude in Process: 1799-1850
The Early Reception
Samuel Coleridge Taylor · To William Wordsworth
Thomas De Quincey · William Wordsworth
From the Eclectic Review
From Tat's Edinburgh Magazine
From the Gentleman's Magazine
From Graham's Magazine
From the British Quarterly Review
From the Dublin University Magazine
From the Examiner
Henry Crabb Robinson
Frederick Denison Maurice
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Matthew Arnold
A. C. Bradley
Recent Critical Essays
Jonathan Wordsworth · The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
M. H. Arams · The Design of The Prelude: Wordsworth's Long
Journey Home
Geoffrey H. Hartman · A Poet's Progress: Wordsworth and the Via
Naturaliter Negativa
Richard J. Onorato · The Prelude: Metaphors of Beginning and
Where They Lead
William Empson · Sense in The Prelude
Herbert Lindenberger · Images of Interaction in The Prelude
W. B. Gallie · Is The Prelude a Philosophical Poem?
Bibliography of Works Cited and Consulted
Selected Reading
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