Buried Communities: Wordsworth and the Bonds of Mourning

CONTENTS

Preface ix Abbreviations and Editions xiii Introduction 1 1. A “World of Shades”: The Birth of Community in the Juvenilia 27 2. Grief and Dwelling in the Cambridge Poems, including An Evening Walk 47 3. Genre, Politics, and Community in the Salisbury Plain Poems 67 4. Shades of Mourning and the One Life in The Ruined Cottage 97 5. Elegies, Epitaphs, and Legacies of Loss in Lyrical Ballads 127 6. Grieving and Dwelling in the Five-Book Prelude and Home at Grasmere 163 7. “A New Controul” in Poems in Two Volumes and The Excursion 193 Notes 219 Selected Bibliography 265 Index 283 vii C O N T E N T S ...