Simon Jarvis is Gorley Putt Senior Lecturer in English Literary History at the University of Cambridge.

Review of the hardback: 'Jarvis' Wordsworth's Philosophic Song is a rare example of a study that successfully moves beyond the historicist/formalist wars by carefully and self-consciously close reading not only Wordsworth's poems and prose, but also the numerous philosophical, social and political sources used here to illuminate such work.' Bars Bulletin & Review

• Introduction: Poetic thinking: the speculative element of Wordsworth's verse; Part I. Counter-spirits: 1. Old idolatry; 2. From idolatry to ideology; 3. Materialism of the beautiful; Part II. Common Day: 4. Happiness; 5. Infinity; 6. Life; 7. Light; Conclusion: Imagination.

Simon Jarvis is Gorley Putt Senior Lecturer in English Literary History at the University of Cambridge.

Review of the hardback: 'Jarvis' Wordsworth's Philosophic Song is a rare example of a study that successfully moves beyond the historicist/formalist wars by carefully and self-consciously close reading not only Wordsworth's poems and prose, but also the numerous philosophical, social and political sources used here to illuminate such work.' Bars Bulletin & Review

• Introduction: Poetic thinking: the speculative element of Wordsworth's verse; Part I. Counter-spirits: 1. Old idolatry; 2. From idolatry to ideology; 3. Materialism of the beautiful; Part II. Common Day: 4. Happiness; 5. Infinity; 6. Life; 7. Light; Conclusion: Imagination.

Simon Jarvis is Gorley Putt Senior Lecturer in English Literary History at the University of Cambridge.

Review of the hardback: 'Jarvis' Wordsworth's Philosophic Song is a rare example of a study that successfully moves beyond the historicist/formalist wars by carefully and self-consciously close reading not only Wordsworth's poems and prose, but also the numerous philosophical, social and political sources used here to illuminate such work.' Bars Bulletin & Review

• Introduction: Poetic thinking: the speculative element of Wordsworth's verse; Part I. Counter-spirits: 1. Old idolatry; 2. From idolatry to ideology; 3. Materialism of the beautiful; Part II. Common Day: 4. Happiness; 5. Infinity; 6. Life; 7. Light; Conclusion: Imagination.