Using the poet's autobiographical poem, "The Prelude," the author refutes the theory that the radical Wordsworth was completely lost in the conservative older man by showing a close relationship between his early pantheism and his later Christian beliefs. She sets forth a Wordsworth little known even to Wordsworthian scholars."

Originally published in 1942.

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