Wordsworth's Poetic Collections, Supplementary Writing and Parodic Reception [Paperback]

Wordsworths process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworths poetry.Wordsworths process of revision, his organization of poetic volumes and his supplementary writings are often seen as distinct from his poetic composition. Bates asserts that an analysis of these supplementary writings and paratexts are necessary to a full understanding of Wordsworths poetry.Introduction; Chapter 1 Reframing Lyrical Ballads (1800/1798); Chapter 2 Textual Travelling in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads; Chapter 3 Short-Circuiting Wordsworths 1807 Poems : Richard Mants the Simpliciad; Chapter 4 Wordsworths 'Library of Babel: The Excursion and the 1815 Poems; Chapter 5 Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridges Biographia Literaria; Chapter 6 J. H. Reynoldss Peter Bell and the Wordsworthian Reputation; Chapter 7 The River Duddon Volume and Wordsworths Canonical Ascent;US? Taylor & Francis 2012