Co-published with The Wordsworth Trust. Wordsworth lived in an era of change [1770-1850]. This exhibition book has catalog listings but is also full of beautiful color plates and enlightening text. 6 chapters - The Age of Revolutions, The Spirit of the Age, "The Child is Father of the Man," The Discovery of Nature, "Unity Entire," Memory, Imagination, and the Sublime. The text illuminates the ideas that abounded during teh Romantic period. Wonderful discussions of Gilpin, Burke, John Constable, the Shelleys, Coleridge, Blake, etc, great context for students of Austen. 1988 2nd printing. Paper, 261 pgs, oversized. Rutgers UP. VG condition. USED. $9.00