Two roads to Wordsworth / M.H. Abrams -- The scene of instruction : "Tintern Abbey" / Harold Bloom -- The prelude and the love of man / Frances Ferguson -- Wordsworth's Severe intimations / Paul H. Fry -- Wordsworth and the defile of the word / Thomas Weiskel -- "Was it for this . . . .?" : Wordsworth and the birth of the gods / Geoffrey Hartman -- From Wordsworth to Emerson / David Bromwich -- "While we were schoolboys" : Hawkshead education and reading / Kenneth R. Johnston -- William Wordsworth, The prelude / Jonathan Wordsworth -- Wordsworth's abbey ruins / Dennis Taylor -- The excursion : dramatic composition, dramatic definition / Sally Bushell