Wordsworth's Revisitings

Sally Bushell, BARS Bulletin As always with Stephen Gill this is a very useful book. It covers ground so scrupulously and authoritatively that it invokes trust, and the scope and range of knowledge of texts in multiple states is deeply impressive. Gills place in the line of Great Wordsworthians is already assured and this late addition to his lifes work, centred on the poets late additions to his lifes work, can only confirm it.

James Vigus, Notes and Queries There is no doubt that both experienced and new readers of Wordsworth will find many valuable insights in this elegantly written book. Not least, textual scholars might note Gill's observation (made with an editors eye) that Wordsworth's habit and technique of revisiting explain his hostility to chronological arrangements of poems.

<br>Stephen Gill, Retired Professor of English, Lincoln College, Oxford <br>Stephen Gill is retired Professor of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He is a Trustee of the Wordsworth Trust and has published many books on Wordsworth, including illiam Wordsworth: A Life (1989), Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998, both OUP), The Prelude (1991), and Companion to Wordsworth (2003, both Cambridge University Press). His edition of The Salisbury Plain Poems with Cornell University Press in 1975 inaugurated The Cornell Wordsworth Series and he has edited Victorian novels-by Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, George Eliot, Gissing-for OUP and Penguin. His previous edition of Wordsworth inaugurated the OUP 'Oxford Poets' series in 1984.<br>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Second Thoughts ; 2. The Ruined Cottage Revisited ; 3. The Prelude 1804-1820 ; 4. The Prelude 1820-1850 ; 5. Where Once We Stood Rejoicing ; 6. On Sarum's Plain ; BIBLIOGRAPHY