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My citations from Wordsworth’s poetry are, with a few exceptions, from the reading texts of the Cornell Wordsworth series. The following abbreviations appear in text in parentheses. 2P The Prelude, 1798–1799, ed. Stephen Parrish (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). 5P The Five-Book Prelude, ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997). 13P The Thirteen-Book “Prelude,” ed. Mark L. Reed, 2 vols. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), vol. 1. 1805 AB-stage reading text. 13P 2 The Thirteen-Book “Prelude,” vol. 2. 14P The Fourteen-Book “Prelude,” ed. W. J. B. Owen (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985). B The Borderers, ed. Robert Osborn (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982). CLSTC The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs, 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956–71). CWSTC The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, gen. ed. Kathleen Coburn, 16 vols. Bollingen Series 75 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971–2001). DS Descriptive Sketches, ed. Eric Birdsall (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984). EPF Early Poems and Fragments, 1785–1797, ed. Carol Landon and Jared Curtis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997). xiii A B B R E V I A T I O N S A N D E D I T I O N S EW An Evening Walk, ed. James H. Averill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984). Ex The Excursion 1814, introd. Jonathan Wordsworth (Oxford: Woodstock Books, 1991). EY The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years, 1787–1805, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, rev. Chester L. Shaver (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967). FN The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth, ed. Jared Curtis (London : Bristol Classics Press, 1993). GL Guide to the Lakes (1835), ed. Ernest de Selincourt (London: Oxford University Press, 1977). HG “Home at Grasmere”: Part First, Book First, of “The Recluse,” ed. Beth Darlington (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977, corr. 1989). HW Kenneth R. Johnston, The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy (New York: Norton, 1998). LB “Lyrical Ballads,” and Other Poems, 1797–1800, ed. James Butler and Karen Green (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992). LY The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Later Years, 1821–1850, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, rev. Alan G. Hill, 4 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978–88). MY The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Middle Years, 1806–1820, ed. Ernest de Selincourt, rev. Mary Moorman and Alan G. Hill, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969–70). NCP The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton, 1979). PHS James H. Averill, Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980). PrW The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Smyser, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). PTV “Poems, in Two Volumes,” and Other Poems, 1800–1807, ed. Jared Curtis (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983, corr. 1990). PW The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940–49, rev. 1952–59). RC “The Ruined Cottage” and “The Pedlar,” ed. James Butler (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). xiv Abbreviations and Editions [18.223.107.149] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 08:27 GMT) SE The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. and trans. James Strachey et al., 24 vols. (London: Hogarth Press, 1953–74). ShP Shorter Poems, 1807–1820, ed. Carl H. Ketcham (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989). SPP The Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975, corr. 1991). TP “The Tuft of Primroses,” with Other Late Poems for “The Recluse,” ed. Joseph F. Kishel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). WCh F. B. Pinion, A Wordsworth Chronology (London: Macmillan, 1988). WE Alan Bewell, Wordsworth and the Enlightenment: Nature, Man, and Society in the Experimental Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987). WL Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). WP Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1787–1814 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964, rpt. 1987). WR Duncan Wu, Wordsworth’s Reading, 1770–1799 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). WW Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography, vol. 1, The Early Years, 1770–1803 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, rpt. 1967). xv Abbreviations and Editions ...

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