Concentrates on poems before 1820: The Ruined Cottage, Home at Grasmere, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, sonnets, Poems of 1807 and collected poems of 1815; also selected later work. The seminar explores Wordsworth’s thematic and formal originality, engagement with nature, moral imagination, his own critical writing, relation to earlier poets, Coleridge’s admiration and critique of his achievement, and recent critical assessments.