William wordsworth biography and his works christian

Preface

Abbreviations

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Wordsworth's Faith

2. Vain Belief: Wordsworth and the One Left

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Faith's Progress, 1799-1804

4. Wordsworth and the Immortal Soul

5. Soul's Progress: The Faith of The Prelude

Conclusion: The Christian Wordsworth

Notes

Index

Traces the evolution of Wordsworth's religious attitudes from his revisions of The Ruined Cottage to the completion of The Prelude.

Recent scholarship on the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth usually depicts him as a secular humanist during the years of his creative ascendancy.

In The Christian Wordsworth, 1798–1805, William A. Ulmer challenges this consensus by arguing that Wordsworth never abandoned his faith in a supernatural Deity and that the poet's theism included important Christian sympathies as early as 1798.

By tracing the changes in Wordsworth's religious beliefs—from the early secular period to the later Anglican period—Ul