Description
Book SynopsisThis directory of the authors and books known to have been read by William Wordsworth up to the age of twenty-nine provides an essential reference tool - in a compact, easy-to-use form - for all scholars and students of Wordsworth's work.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Dates of readings; A note on texts; Wordsworth's reading 1770–1799; Appendix I: possible readings; Appendix II: Wordsworth's Hawkshead and classical educations, and his College examinations at Cambridge; Appendix III: books purchased for Wordsworth, 1784–6; Appendix IV: Wrangham and his library; Appendix V: Thomas Poole's library and the Stowey Book Society; Appendix VI: Coleridge's Bristol Library borrowings; Appendix VII: Joseph Cottle's Bristol Library borrowings; Bibliography; Index.
