Wordsworth's Poetry 1787-1814

The drama of consciousness and maturation in the growth of a poet''s mind is traced from Wordsworth''s earliest poems to The Excursion of 1814. Mr. Hartman follows Wordsworth''s growth into self-consciousness, his realization of the autonomy of the spirit, and his turning back to nature. The apocalyptic bias is brought out, perhaps for the first time since Bradley''s Oxford Lectures, and without s...