Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842
From 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth is preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with "natural piety" in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre, including the "Gothic" juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage, Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion, and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind "the living and the dead" and to nurture "the kind".
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From 1787 to 1842, Wordsworth is preoccupied with the themes of loss and death, and with "natural piety" in the lives of people and nations. Beginning with his consciousness of the Bards and Druids of Cumbria, this book treats Wordsworth's oeuvre, including the "Gothic" juvenilia, The Ruined Cottage, Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion, and the Poems of 1842, as unified by a Bardic vocation, to bind "the living and the dead" and to nurture "the kind".
AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1Pt. 1The World of Shades1'Among the Men of Old'112'Unforgotten Lays'333'Indignant Hills'51Pt. 2The Bond of Nature4A Defence of the People, Part 1: 'And of the Poor'755A Defence of the People, Part 2: 'The Pathos of Humanity'926'Nature' in the Poem upon the Wye115Pt. 3The Living and the Dead7Peopling Elysium1338Lucy and her Cousins1569'The Milder Day'; or, Manliness and Minstrelsy175Pt. 4Wordsworth and Kindliness10A Pedlar at the Hearth of Lord Lonsdale20311National Pieties; or, The Road to Waterloo22512'The Steps which I have Trod'245Notes and References267Index301
