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WORDSWORTH
WORDSWORTH: PRIMARY READING
You need to buy the Oxford edition of Wordsworth ed. Stephen Gill; the Norton edition of The Prelude, eds. Wordsworth, Abrams, Gill; the Penguin Selected Prose, ed. J. Hayden.

You will need to familiarise yourself in the Upper Reading Room with the three volume edition of Wordsworth\'s Prose edited by W.J.B. Owen and Jane Smyser. The comprehensive edition of the poems by Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire is slowly being replaced by the multi-volume Cornell Wordsworth edition. You may not need to use these big editions much, but you ought to know where to find information in them if you need it. The recommended reading listed below is keyed to the books you need to buy and/or to the Cornell edition.

1793 An Evening Walk in Gill
A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff in Hayden
Salisbury Plain in Gill

1795-7 Adventures on Salisbury Plain in Cornell Ed.
The Borderers (early version) in Cornell Ed.

1797-9 The Ruined Cottage MSS B and D in Cornell Ed. (work out the differences in the two versions of the poem. The MS D text is also in Gill)
Lyrical Ballads largely in Gill pp. 49-135
Appendix in Gill, pp. 676-81, especially the philosophical verse \'Not Useless. . .\'
The Two-Part Prelude in Norton

1800-02 Lyrical Ballads Gill pp. 136-236
Home at Grasmere in Gill pp. 174-99
Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1800 and 1802 in Gill pp. 595-619. (Additions to the text of 1800 are enclosed in square brackets.)

1802-05 Lyrical poems published 1807, largely in Gill pp. 237-327. Full text of 1807 Poems in Two Volumes available in Cornell Ed.
The Prelude, 1805 text in Norton

1805- Later poems in Gill 329-373
Prefatory essay to 1815 ed. in Gill pp. 627-62

1814 The Excursion - order up first edition in Bodley and examine. Read as much of it as possible in any available text, preferably volume five of the De Selincourt-Darbishire edition.

1815 The Preface to the first collected edition and the Essay Supplementary to the Preface, in Gill, 626-662. Important.


WORDSWORTH: SECONDARY READING
This is a sensible reading list, i.e. by no means comprehensive. Those doing a special study should expect to use all of these books.

Biography
Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life
The Early Period up to 1798
J.F. Wordsworth, The Music of Humanity
Paul Sheats, The Making of Wordsworth\'s Poetry
J. Averill, Wordsworth and Human Suffering
Lyrical Ballads
See list below
The Major Period 1800-1808
J.F. Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision
J. Curtis, Wordsworth\'s Experiments with Tradition
David Simpson, Wordsworth\'s Historical Imagination
J.A. Hodgson, Wordsworth\'s Philosophical Poetry 1797-1814
Robin Jarvis, Wordsworth, Milton and the Theory of Poetic Relations
The Prelude
See list below
The Recluse
K. Johnston, Wordsworth and the Recluse
M.H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism
The Critical Prose
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp (relevant chapters.)
W.J.B. Owen, Wordsworth as Critic
Wordsworth\'s Poetic Language
Josephine Miles, Wordsworth and the Vocabulary of Emotion
Florence Marsh, Wordsworth\'s Imagery
William Empson, "Sense in The Prelude", reprinted in Norton Prelude
Frances Ferguson, Language as Counter-Spirit
H.S. Davies, Wordsworth and the Worth of Words
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Thomas McFarland, Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin (relevant chapters)
Nicholas Roe, Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years
Lucy Newlyn, Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Language of Allusion
Paul Magnuson, Wordsworth and Coleridge
Wordsworth and Politics
Nicholas Roe as above
F.M. Todd, Politics and the Poet (oldish but still useful)
C. Woodring, Politics in English Romantic Poetry
James Chandler, Wordsworth\'s Second Nature
General Studies of Real though Diverse Value
Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism: Second Series
A.C. Bradley, Oxford Lectures on Poetry
C.C. Clarke, Romantic Paradox
G.H. Hartman, Wordsworth\'s Poetry 1787-1814
G.H. Hartman, The Unremarkable Wordsworth
C. Salvesen, The Landscape of Memory
Paul Hamilton, Wordsworth
J. Wordsworth, M.C. Jaye and R. Woof, eds., Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism
Peter J. Manning, Reading Romantics: Text and Context - excellent sort of New Historical readings of some poems
Don H. Bialostosky, Wordsworth, dialogics, and the practice of criticism. On the poetry and current critical practice.
Wordsworth\'s Habits of Composition and the Nature of His Text
S. Gill, "Wordsworth\'s Poems: The Question of Text", Review of English Studies, NS. XXXIV (1983), 172-90
Bibliography
Mark Jones and Karl Kroeber, Wordsworth Scholarship and Criticism 1973-1984: An Annotated Bibliography - open shelves Upper Reading Room; continues Henley and Stam volumes also there covering previous century.
WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE: LYRICAL BALLADS
Lyrical Ballads was first published in one volume, anonymously, in 1798. Further editions in two vols. followed, with Wordsworth\'s name on the title-page, in 1800, 1802, 1805. The 1798 volume was prefaced by a short \'Advertisement\'; the 1800 volume by a long Preface; the 1802 volume by a revised version of the Preface; the 1805 reprinted the 1802 version of the Preface with only minor tidying-up.

The 1798 volume has been edited by W.J.B. Owen. The 1805 volumes (which incorporate 1800 and 1802) have been edited by D. Roper and, less usefully, by R. Brett and A. Jones. The very best annotated edition is that by Michael Mason in the Longmans Annotated Texts series (1992). The 1802 preface is printed in Gill\'s Oxford Wordsworth, with the 1802 revisions to the 1800 text signalled by square brackets. Both the 1800 and the 1802 Prefaces are printed in full in Paul Zall\'s edition of Wordsworth\'s Literary Criticism.

Programme
Establish the contents of the 1798 edition and then the 1800-1805 editions by reference to the above.
Establish the difference between the 1800 and 1802 Prefaces by reference to Gill and/or Zall. W.J.B. Owen discusses the differences in his necessary-reading Wordsworth as Critic.
Establish the circumstances of the composition of the 1798 Lyrical Ballads by reference to Owen\'s introduction to his edition and by M.L. Reed, \'Wordsworth, Coleridge and the "lan" of the Lyrical Ballads\', University of Toronto Quarterly, XXXIV (1964-5), 238-53.
For discussion of the poems in historical context see Mary Jacobus, Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth\'s Lyrical Ballads 1798 and Heather Glen, Vision and Disenchantment, chapters 2, 3, 6-8.
Look at the following: S.M. Parrish, The Art of Lyrical Ballads; J.F. Danby, The Simple Wordsworth; Lucy Newlyn, Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Language of Allusion; M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp - on critical theories relevant to the Preface to - on critical theories relevant to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.
THE PRELUDE
Verse eventually incorporated in Wordsworth\'s autobiographical poem was begun in 1798. A version in two books was completed by the end of 1799. The thirteen book version was completed in 1805, but the poem continued to occupy Wordsworth for most of the rest of his life. By the time of final revision the poem was in fourteen books, and so it was published immediately after his death. Only then was it entitled The Prelude, by his widow and executors.

The poem now called The Two-Part Prelude, or sometimes The Prelude (1799), is available in the Norton edition, edited Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, S. Gill, where it is followed by facing texts of the 1805 and 1850 versions. The 1805 version is also printed in Gill. Jonathan Wordsworth has also edited four stages of the poem for the Penguin Prelude.

Secondary Reading
Many of the general books already listed of course deal with The Prelude. This brief list includes only those with special relevance.

Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: The Prelude. Introductory book which aims to give much of the information you might want about the poem\'s genesis and development in a succinct and palatable form.
H. Lindenberger, On Wordsworth\'s Prelude (oldish and refers only to 1850 text, but still of use).
M.H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism (relevant chapters)
W.J. Harvey and R. Gravil, eds. Wordsworth: The Prelude (Casebook series)
R. Rehder, Wordsworth and the Beginnings of Modern Poetry (relevant chapters)
K. Johnston, Wordsworth and the Recluse Gives much valuable material on relation of The Prelude to The Recluse
David Ellis, Wordsworth, Freud and the Spots of Time: Interpretation in The Prelude
Mary Jacobus, Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude

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他是不比荷尔德林分量轻，好象没有荷的奇气

不是一般总结的那样只是高古、淳厚、悠远，也有质实尖锐之处，与别的英国诗人相通
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