Now that my biography of Wordsworth is at press – coming out in early April in the UK and late April in USA – I’m reflecting on what I put in and what I left out. Most of what I left out was the second half of his life and thus pretty well all his later work. I’m intrigued and slightly amused that this means that for a second time around I find myself at odds with the flow of mainstream Wordsworth/Romanticism studies. That is to say, back in the late 1980s all the “new historicists” were beratin...