Contents -- Foreword: Wordsworth and Post-Enlightenment Culture -- Introduction -- 1. Wordsworth Revisited -- 2. A Touching Compulsion -- 3. Inscriptions and Romantic Nature Poetry -- 4. False Themes and Gentle Minds -- 5. Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History -- 6. Blessing the Torrent -- 7. Words, Wish, Worth -- 8. Diction and Defense -- 9. The Use and Abuse of Structural Analysis -- 10. "Timely Utterance" Once More -- 11. The Poetics of Prophecy -- 12. Elation in Hegel and Wordsworth -- 13. Wordsworth before Heidegger -- 14. The Unremarkable Poet -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.