Preface -- Wordsworth's doctrine: earlier forms. The approach to Wordsworth ; Early theory of life and politics: relation to Godwin ; Early theory of art: relation to the School of Taste -- Wordsworth's doctrine: mature forms. Poetic diction ; The three ages of man ; Wordsworth, Hartley, and English philosophy ; Wordsworth's doctrine of nature ; The active principle: derivation of the imagination ; Fancy and imagination: origin of poetry -- Wordsworth's poetry. The shorter poems ; The philosophic poem: The Prelude and personal readjustment ; The philosophic poem: The Excursion and reconstruction ; Conclusion -- Index