Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Early Years and Adolescent Poetry (1770–87)....Pages 3-19 Cambridge, the Picturesque, and London (1787–91)....Pages 20-32 France, Annette, and Descriptive Poetry (1791–3)....Pages 33-47 War, the Salisbury Plain Poems, and The Borderers (1793–7)....Pages 48-64 Coleridge, Alfoxden, and Lyrical Ballads (1797–8)....Pages 65-83 ‘Peter Bell’ and Reformation by Nature....Pages 84-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Germany and the North of England (1798–9)....Pages 99-108 Home at Grasmere (1800–2)....Pages 109-126 From Marriage to ‘Intimations’ (1802–4)....Pages 127-141 The Prelude and the Imagination (1804–5)....Pages 142-159 Fortitude in Life and Verse (1805–8)....Pages 160-176 Heroism Abroad and Grief at Home (1808–14)....Pages 177-191 The Excursion....Pages 192-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Activity and Alarm (1814–18)....Pages 211-222 New Enterprise and Sonnet Sequences (1818–21)....Pages 223-233 More Trachoma, Poetry, and Travel (1822–31)....Pages 234-251 To the Sunless Land (1831–50)....Pages 252-268 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 Tradition and Innovation....Pages 271-281 Poetic Theory and Practice....Pages 282-300 Critical Reactions....Pages 301-315 Front Matter....Pages 269-269 Conclusion....Pages 316-328 Back Matter....Pages 329-351