Part I Early Years
Chapter 1. Versions of Home
Chapter 2. Hawkshead and Esthwaite
Chapter 3. Cambridge
Chapter 4. To the Alps: and What Followed
Chapter 5. Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff
Part II Writer
Chapter 6. Salisbury Plain and its Consequences
Chapter 7. Racedown
Chapter 8. Coleridge and Alfoxton
Chapter 9. Lyrical Ballads
Chapter 10. Hamburg to the Harz
Chapter 11. Writing in Goslar
Chapter 12. Sockburn to Grasmere
Part III Town-End
Chapter 13. “Home at Grasmere,” the “Ode,” “Michael”
Chapter 14. Hurting
Chapter 15. Marrying
Chapter 16. Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill
Chapter 17. Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland
Chapter 18. “The Prelude” I
Chapter 19. “The Prelude” II
Chapter 20. “Elegiac Stanzas,” Poems, in Two Volumes
Part IV The Light of Common Day
Chapter 21. “The Recluse” and The Convention of Cintra
Chapter 22. Loss and Grief
Chapter 23. Stamp-officer and Poet of The Excursion
Chapter 24. “What though it be past”
Part V Sketches of Late Years
Chapter 25. Poetry, Family, and Polemic
Chapter 26. Peter Bell and “the ghosts of what they were”
Chapter 27. “The Recluse” and “The Prelude”
Chapter 28. The Past Enshrined
Chapter 29. No Resting Place