A uniquely informed and interesting study of Wordsworth primarily in terms of his many friendships with figures such as Southey, de Quincey, Scott, and others and the ways in which these friendships enriched the work of all concerned and contributed to Victorian literature. Chapters in this book include Childhood and Boyhood Among the Lakes, The West Country, Robert Southey, The Poet as Critic and Politician, Thomas De Quincy, Sir Walter Scott, Christopher North, Fellow-Workers in Romanticism.