Wordsworth's historical imagination : the poetry of displacement

Acknowledgements; Citations and abbreviations; Introduction: writing in history and theory 1. ‘Gipsies’ 2. Wordsworth’s agrarian idealism: he case against urban life 3. Another guide to the lakes 4. ‘In single or in social eminence’? The political economy of The Prelude and Home at Grasmere 5. ‘By conflicting passions pressed’: ‘Michael’ and ‘Simon Lee’ 6. Poets, paupers and peripatetics: the politics of sympathy 7. Structuring a subject: The Excursion; Postscript: ‘The star of eve was wanting’; Notes; Bibliography; Index