In providing a comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth (1814-1840) that reveals how his major poems contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries (Keats, Shelley, Byron), this work intertwines literature and history showing that ideological conflicts between authors create dialogic encounters within their poetic texts.

Jeffrey Cox is Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author and editor of ten volumes, including Romanticism in the Shadow of War (2014) and the award-winning Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School (1998).

1. Cockney excursions; 2. Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode': An engaged poetics and the horrors of war; 3. 'This Potter-Don-Juan': 'Peter Bell' in 1819; 4. Thinking rivers: The flow of influence, Wordsworth-Coleridge-Shelley; 5. Late 'Late Wordsworth'; 6. Postscript: Wordsworth in 1850: The Prelude, 'this posthumous yet youthful work'.