Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Audition and Attachment -- 2 Close Encounters I -- 3 Close Encounters II -- 4 The Ethics of Things -- 5 Music versus Conscience -- 6 Captivation and Liberty in Poems on Music -- 7 The Moral Sublime -- 8 Independence and Interdependence -- 9 Surviving Death -- 10 The Poetics of Life -- Envoy: Wordsworth's Afterlives -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.