Examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth's poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialogue with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth's career and its place in the canon.

Katherine Bergren is an assistant professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Illustrations ... iv
Abbreviations ... vii
Introduction ... 1
One           The Global Routes of Daffodils ... 37
Two           Landscape Pedagogy in J. M. Coetzee, The Prelude, and the Lucy Poems ... 74
Three         Globalizing England: Lydia Maria Child and The Excursion ... 147
Four           Localism Unrooted: Jamaica Kincaid and the Guide to the Lakes ... 221
Conclusion ... 282
Acknowledgments ... 291
Bibliography ... 293
Index ... 321
About the Author ... 322