Wordsworth and Coleridge

Peter Larkin is Philosophy and Literature Librarian in the University of Warwick and has published numerous essays on British Romantic poetry and on contemporary ecopoetics.

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• Wordsworth's 'After-Sojourn': Revision and Unself-Rivalry in the Later Poetry   The Secondary Wordsworth's First of Homes: Home at Grasmere   Wordsworth's "Cloud of Texture" Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth's "Book of Questions"   Relations of Scarcity: Ecology and Eschatology in "The Ruined Cottage" Scarcity by Gift: Horizons of the 'Lucy' Poems   Scarcely on the Way: The Starkness of Things in Sacral Space   Wordsworth's Maculate Exception: Achieving the 'Spots of Time'   Imagining Naming Shaping: Stanza VI of 'Dejection: An Ode'   'Fears in Solitude': Reading (from) the Dell   'I mourn to thee': Dedication and Insufficiency in 'Constancy to an Ideal Object'   'Frost at Midnight': Some Coleridgean Intertwinings Coleridge Conversing: Between Soliloquy and Invocation   Repetition, Difference, and Liturgical Participation in Coleridge's 'The Ancient Mariner'   Voice, Judgment, and the Innocence of the Self in Coleridge   Envoi: "Brushwood by Inflection, 2"