Table of Contents

Preface 8 Introduction: Williams and Wordsworth, an Odyssey 11 1. Wordsworth's Revolutionary Anima 16 'A Region of Romance' 16 'Domestic carnage' 30 'Come now, ye golden times' 33 2. An Affair of Sensibility 41 Twilight Tears 41 Affective elements in The Prelude 56 A language for the sense of aftermath 59 Wordsworth and the Sensibility Sonnet 65 3. Wordsworth (Fox) and Jeffrey: 'Namby-Pamby', or the Shock of the New? 73 Poems, in Two Volumes and Charles James Fox 73 Francis Jeffrey on Wordsworth 81 Wordsworth Unmanned; or, the cost of criticism 100 Helen Maria Williams: a Select Bibliography 109 Appendix: Textual Echoes 111

About the Author

Richard Gravil is the author of *Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862* (2000), and of *Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation, 1787-1842* (2003).