1. William Wordsworth, Home at Grasmere, Part First, Book First, of The Recluse [MS. B], ed. Beth Darlington (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1977), ll. 818–20.
2. John Rieder, Wordsworth’s Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1997), p. 13.
3. Toby R. Benis, Romanticism on the Road: The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth’s Homeless (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 57–8.
4. William Wordsworth, The Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975), ll. 97–9. The fact that he possesses a ‘prize’ (l. 88) following the capture of an enemy ship, suggests that he is released in 1783 or shortly thereafter, following the conclusion of the American War of Independence. All future references will be to this edition, and will appear within parentheses in the text.
5. Carl Edward Thompson, The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 130.