William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth: Interviews and Recollections collects and reprints, on a generous scale, selections from the texts of both immediately recorded opinions and characterizations that were written down in later years. Represented in this anthology are 22 of Wordsworth's most important contemporaries. With the exception of Shelley, they all knew Wordsworth personally. It was difficult, and perhaps impossible, for any of them to write neutrally or objectively about the impression that Wordsworth made on them. Their comments make for lively reading.

HAROLD OREL is now retired, but is affiliated with the University of Kansas, USA. He has published nearly 30 books, including a number of previous volumes in the Interviews and Recollections series (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1991), Gilbert and Sullivan (1994), The Brontës (1996), Charles Darwin (2000); A Kipling Chronology (1990), Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings (1990), The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini (1995)). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has lectured in England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, India and Japan.