1. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, eds E. de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940–49), vol 5, p. 186. All further references to the Excursion in text are to CW, vol 5.
2. ‘Lyrical Ballads’ and Other Poems, 1797–1800, eds James Butler and Karen Green (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 236. [Henceforth LB in text.]
3. David Simpson, Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry (London: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 72-6
4. Alan Bewell, Wordsworth and the Enlightenment: Nature, Man and Society in the Experimental Poetry (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989), pp. 71-105
5. Michael Wiley, Romantic Geography: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces (London: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 79-126.