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Reviews of Scholarly Books on Wordsworth

Benis, Toby R. A review of Romanticism on the Road: The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth's Homeless, reviewed by Patrick Vincent in Romanticism on the Net no 22, 2001

Blank, Kim. A review of Wordsworth and Feeling: The Poetry of an Adult Child, 1995. Reviewed by Ruth Mead in Romanticism on the Net

Cronin, Richard, ed. A review of 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads. (Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 1998). Reviewed by Tim Fulford in Romanticism on the Net

Curtis, Jared, ed. A review of William Wordsworth, Last Poems, 1821-1850 Cornell Univ.Press (1999), reviewed by Brennan O'Donnell in Romanticism on the Net no 24, 2001

Gill, Stephen. Brief review of Wordsworth and the Victorians, (Clarendon Press, 1998) in New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies

Graver, Bruce E., ed. A review of Translations of Chaucer and Virgil(Cornell Univ. Press, 1998), a recent publication of Wordsworth's translations. In Romanticism on the Net

Graver, Bruce. A review of Wordsworth's Reading: 1770-1790. An article offers additions to Duncan Wu's publication, in Romanticism on the Net

Griffin, Robert J. A review of Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). Reviewed by Seamus Perry in Romanticism on the Net

Hanley, Keith. A review of Wordsworth: A Poet's History (2001). Reviewed by Kenneth Johnstonin Romanticism on the Net no 25, 2002

Hickey, Alison. A review of Alison Hickey's Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's 'Excursion'. (Stanford Univ. Press, 1997). Reviewed by Michael O'Neill. In Romanticism on the Net

Johnston, Kenneth R. A review of The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy. (W.W. Norton, 1998). Reviewed by Bruce E. Graver. In Romanticism on the Net

Johnston, Kenneth. A review of Kenneth Johnston's The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy. Norton, 1998. Reviewed by Marcy L. Tanter in New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies

Kearns, Sheila. A review of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Romantic Autobiography: Reading Strategies of Self-representation. (Associated Univ. Press, 1995). Reviewed by Michael Laplace-Sinatra. In Romanticism on the Net

Kneale, J. Douglas. A review of , Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge. Reviewed by Brennan O'Donnell in Romanticism on the Net no 18, 2000

Langan, Celeste. A review of Celeste Langan's Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). Reviewed by K. Oishi. In Romanticism on the Net

Matlak, Richard E. A review of The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Reviewed by Dino Felluga in Romanticism on the Net

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/mullan.html Mullan, John. A review by Michael Laplace-Sinatra of John Mullan, General Editor, Lives of the Great Romantics, 3 Volume Set. London: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited, 1996. In Romanticism on the Net

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2001/v/n23/005990ar.html O'Donnell, Brennan. A review by Jill Heydt-Stevenson of Brennan O'Donnell's (1995) The Passion of Meter: A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art, in Romanticism on the Net no 23, 2001

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2002/v/n27/006565ar.html Plotz, Judith. Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood. Basingstoke: ...Reviewed by John Beer in Romanticism on the Net no 27, 2002

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2001/v/n22/005978ar.html Sullivan, Brad. A review by Mark Lussier of Brad Sullivan's Wordsworth and the Composition of Knowledge: Refiguring Relationships Among Minds, Worlds, and Words (2000). Reviewed in Romanticism on the Net no 22, 2001

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2002/v/n27/006566ar.html Waldoff, Leon. A review by Richard Matlak of Leon Waldoff's (2001) Wordsworth in His Major Lyrics: The Art and Psychology of Self-Representation. Reviewed in Romanticism on the Net no 27, 2002

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/williams.html Williams, John. A review by Bruce Graver of John Williams' William Wordsworth: A Literary Life. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1996. In Romanticism on the Net

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/lb1800.html Wordsworth, Johathan. A review by Bruce Graver of Jonathan Wordsworth's facsimile reprint Lyrical Ballads 1800, intr. Jonathan Wordsworth. Banbury: Woodstock Books, 1997. In Romanticism on the Net

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/wu.html Wu, Duncan. A review by Eric Walker of Duncan Wu's Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. In Romanticism on the Net

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/wufive.html Wu, Duncan, ed. A review by Brennan O'Donnell of Wu's attempt to create a five-book version of "The Prelude," The Five-Book Prelude. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997. In Romanticism on the Net


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