Keith Hanley is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

Keith Hanley is a very well-known scholar, eminent in his field, who has published excellent material on Wordsworth and Victorian topics. After long study of Victorian literature, he has written a book which brings his research to its culmination. Cogently argued and imaginatively illustrated, it treats judiciously selected texts in an informative manner, pitching itself well for lay reader and scholar alike. It is rare to find a scholar who so ably combines a gift for theory with an ability to provide close reading.

• IntroductionThe Sacred ImaginaryContinuitiesThe Sacred SymbolicPsychological PilgrimageThis BookPart I. The Return of the Sacred1 Romantic SacralizationThe New Dawn The Wordsworth Paradigm2 Literary PilgrimageThe English LakesNew JerusalemsRomePart II. Wordsworth's Grand Pilgrimage3 The Interior JourneyA Silent EchoThe Boys of WinanderRedoublings‘Winander’4 The Anglican SublimeSublimesBrotherly FacultiesCrossingsThe Sacred Nation5 ExcursionsReturn JourneysThe Irish TourThe Via MediaPart III. Sacred SpacesPreamble6 Three PsychogeographiesWordsworth’s ‘Sacred Ground’Ruskin ‘On the Old Roads’Newman’s Itinerary of AssentSelect BibliographyIndex