Stephen Gill is retired Professor of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

In all ways, the edition is a credit both to Oxford University Press and to this fine scholar to whom Wordsworthians owe much.

• List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; Chronology ; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798) ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800) ; OTHER POEMS 1798-1800 ; FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807) ; OTHER POEMS 1800-1808 ; THE PRELUDE (1805) ; FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809) ; FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810) ; FROM THE EXCURSION (1814) ; FROM POEMS (1815) ; FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816) ; FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820) ; FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820) ; OTHER POEMS 1815-1846 ; Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index of Titles and First Lines

Stephen Gill is retired Professor of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

In all ways, the edition is a credit both to Oxford University Press and to this fine scholar to whom Wordsworthians owe much.

• List of Illustrations ; Introduction ; Chronology ; A Note on the Selection and Its Ordering ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1798) ; FROM LYRICAL BALLADS (1800) ; OTHER POEMS 1798-1800 ; FROM POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES (1807) ; OTHER POEMS 1800-1808 ; THE PRELUDE (1805) ; FROM THE CONVENTIONS OF CINTRA (1809) ; FROM ESSAYS UPON EPITAPHS (1810) ; FROM THE EXCURSION (1814) ; FROM POEMS (1815) ; FROM A LETTER TO A FRIEND OF ROBERT BURNS (1816) ; FROM THE RIVER DUDDON (1820) ; FROM TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE LAKES (1820) ; OTHER POEMS 1815-1846 ; Appendix: Wordsworth before Lyrical Ballads ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index of Titles and First Lines