Harold B. Lee Library

Biographies and Criticism

Selected Biographies

Barker, Juliet R. V.  Wordsworth: a life.  New York: Ecco, 2005.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5881 .B27 2005

Gill, Stephen.  William Wordsworth: A Life.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5881 .G55 1989

Johnston, Kenneth R.  The hidden Wordsworth: poet, lover, rebel, spy.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5882 .J65 1998

Mahoney, John L.  William Wordsworth: A poetic life.  New York: Fordham University Press, 1987.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5881 .M33 1997

Sisman, Adam.  The friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge. New York: Viking, 2007.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5883 .S57 2007

Selected Criticism (Monographs)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.  Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions.  London: Rest Fenner, 1817.

Call number: Vault Collection 821.72 B52 1817 vol.1-2

Hunt, Leigh.  Men, women, and books: a selection of sketches, essays, and critical memoirs, from his uncollected prose writings.  New York: Harper Brothers, 1847.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 4812. M4 1847 v. 1-2

Wordsworth, Jonathan.  William Wordsworth: the borders of vision.  Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5888 .W65 1982

Davies, Hugh Sykes.  Wordsworth and the worth of words. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5894 .D38 1987

Simpson, David.  Wordsworth’s historical imagination: the poetry of displacement.  New York: Methuen, 1987.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5892 .H5 S56 1987

Gill, Stephen.  Cambridge companion to Wordsworth.  Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5888 .C27 2003

Bennett, Andrew.  Wordsworth Writing.  Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 72.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5891 .B46 2007

Jarvis, Simon.  Wordsworth’s philosophic song.  Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 67.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5892 .P5 J37 2007

Uhlig, Stefan H., ed. Wordsworth’s poetic theory: knowledge, language, experience. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Call number: Rowe Collection PR 5888 .W69 2010