This volume consists of criticism on the work of William Wordsworth during the period 1793-1820. Wide-ranging in its coverage, the book features over 250 diary extracts, letters, reviews, comments, and opinions by and about Wordsworth.

Here, in this book, is a presentation of Keats's story: an account with pictures and in detail of his years as a medical student, his gift for friendship, his care for his brothers, and particularly for Tom whose death from tuberculosis preceded Keats's own, his walking tour to the English Lake District and into Scotland, his love, desperate, ecstatic and cut off by illness, and above all, his total and passionate commitment to poetry. Keats lived poetry: the reading of it, the writing of it. The Wordsworth Trust here places Keats's achievement within its cultural context with a special...