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The Wordsworth Centre.

A guide to the sprawling current standard academic edition of Wordsworth's poems, with brief descriptions of the major works.

The young Coleridge.

A first edition of the two-volume Lyrical Ballads.

One analogy, from another art form, for the effect of Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth as elderly sage, also as sage, and a pen-and-ink drawing of the poet young and worried.

Tintern Abbey, seen from across the Wye, 1794 (painting by Edward Dayes). Seen from across the River Wye right now. Seen, as Wordsworth might have seen it, from above and far away by a contemporary tourist (never mind the guy in the blue cap).

But the poem takes place, the title says, "a few miles above" (i.e. upstream from) Tintern Abbey-- probably about here, according to David S. Miall's arresting scholarly argument about what Wordsworth actually describes. A relevant plate from Samuel Ireland's Picturesque Views on the River Wye (1797), which describes Wordsworth's path. The Wye with sycamores (picture by Miall).

Some of Wordsworth's manuscripts in electronic facsimile (may require Explorer).

The Toronto online versions of some Wordsworth poems, including "Simon Lee" and the poem commonly known as "Tintern Abbey" and the Immortality Ode and the entirety of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads and the disturbing "Ode to Duty."

Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount. One tourist's view from Rydal Mount.

From UCSB, important events for the study of Romanticism, year by year.

From the University of Alberta, a set of resources for studying Coleridge's "Frost at MIdnight": multiple online texts, with an earlier version, biographical and critical background, and the makings of an essay about Coleridge, childhood grief, and attachment theory.