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Introduction: Tradition And Experiment -- Part I: 'the Silent Hour Of Inward Thought' -- Guilt And Alienation: The Godwinian Background -- Nature, Self, And Imagination: The Eighteenth-century Legacy -- 'the Whole One Self': The Debt To Coleridge -- The Lyric Voice Of Spring 1798 -- 'tintern Abbey' And The Renewal Of Tradition -- Part Ii: 'the Moving Accident Is Not By Trade' -- 'the Tragic Super-tragic' And Salisbury Plain -- 'tales Of Silent Suffering' And The Wordsworthian Solitary -- 'magazine Poetry' And The Poetry Of Passion -- The Ballad Revival And The 1790's -- The Ballad Experiment Of 1798 -- Conclusion: Peter Bell: A Manifesto. Mary Jacobus. Includes Index. List Of Wordsworth's Mss.: P. [289]-290. Bibliography: P. [291]-293.