William Wordsworth

1. Front Matter

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2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 1-17

3. Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 18-28

4. Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 29-50

5. William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 51-64

6. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 65-77

7. Robert Southey (1774–1843)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 78-83

8. John Keats (1795–1821)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 84-89

9. Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

   • Harold Orel

   Pages 90-94

10. John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 95-100

11. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 101-104

12. John Stuart Mill (1806–73)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 105-118

13. Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 119-129

14. Robert Browning (1812–89)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 130-132

15. Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 133-138

16. Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 139-152

17. Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 153-169

18. Matthew Arnold (1822–88)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 170-175

19. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 176-182

20. More Opinions

    • Harold Orel

    Pages 183-191

William Wordsworth: Interviews and Recollections collects and reprints, on a generous scale, selections from the texts of both immediately recorded opinions and characterizations that were written down in later years. Represented in this anthology are 22 of Wordsworth's most important contemporaries. With the exception of Shelley, they all knew Wordsworth personally. It was difficult, and perhaps impossible, for any of them to write neutrally or objectively about the impression that Wordsworth made on them. Their comments make for lively reading.

• Coleridge
• John Keats
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Tennyson
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

• English Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

  Harold Orel

HAROLD OREL is now retired, but is affiliated with the University of Kansas, USA. He has published nearly 30 books, including a number of previous volumes in the Interviews and Recollections series (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1991), Gilbert and Sullivan (1994), The Brontës (1996), Charles Darwin (2000); A Kipling Chronology (1990), Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings (1990), The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini (1995)). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has lectured in England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, India and Japan.

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