Strategies, considers Wordsworth's provocative theories of how poetry should work, and includes a treatment of the famous 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, one of the great poetic manifestos. Part 3 offers illuminating commentary and questions on the following poems: 'We are seven', 'Anecdote for fathers', 'Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree', 'To my sister', 'Lines written in Early Spring', 'Expostulation and Reply', 'The Tables Turned';, 'The Female Vagrant', 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill', 'The Last of the Flock', 'The Mad Mother', 'The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman', 'The Convict', 'Old Man travelling', 'Simon Lee', 'The Idiot Boy', 'TheThorn', 'Tintern Abbey', 'Hart-leap Well', 'There was a boy', 'Nutting', 'The Lucy Poems', 'The Brothers' and 'Michael'. Part 4: Critical Reception discusses contemporary, Victorian and recent critical approaches to Wordsworth and includes an annotated guide to further reading.

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