Some important events during the lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Pt. 1. Analysing Lyrical ballads -- 1. Childhood and the growth of the mind -- 2. Imagination -- 3. Old age : a 'vital anxiousness' -- 4. Social issues : 'the mean and vulgar works of man' -- 5. Nature and the supernatural : 'the strangeness of it' -- Pt. 2. The context and the critics -- 6. The politics of Wordsworth and Coleridge -- 7. Reading and writing in eighteenth-century England -- 8. The poet as critic and theorist -- 9. Dorothy Wordsworth and the lake poets -- 10. Critical response to Lyrical ballads
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index
