1770-1850

Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, having grown up hearing stories that mutineer Fletcher Christian returned from exile on Pitcairn Island to live out his life in England, is inspired when a two-hundred-year-old corpse bearing South Pacific tattoos washes out of a hillside in the Lake District, to hunt for a rumored manuscript Wordsworth wrote about Christian's adventures, not realizing there are others who want the lost poem for personal gain and are willing to kill to get it.

Critical essays examine his general poetic qualities, individual poems, and analyze significant passages.

Presents a variety of viewpoints by different critics on three poems by late eighteenth-century poet William Wordsworth, and includes biographical and bibliographical information.

A representive selection of literary criticism published since 1950 on the work of Wordsworth. Arranged in the chronological order of publication.

Offers a brief introduction to the life of English poet William Wordsworth and critical analysis of his work.

Offers a brief introduction to the life of English poet William Wordsworth and critical analysis of his work.

Provides a brief biography of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, a selection of personal reminiscences by his contemporaries, and critical essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on specific Wordsworth works.