This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordswortha s poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813. * Looks at the impact of grief on Wordswortha s great poetry. * Explains the importance of the poeta s great, unfinished epic a The Reclusea to his work as a whole. * Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks. * Contains the first annotated text of a The White Doe of Rylstonea .