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Part 1 The early critical reception of "Poems, in Two Volumes" (1807):William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont (1807); Robert Southey (1807); AnnaSeward (1807); Byron's review (1807); Francis Jeffrey's review (1807);William Wordsworth to Robert Southey (1808); Anon, cabinet, review(1808); Anon, poetical register for 1806-7, review (1811); Anon, "TheSimpliciad"; "Biographia Literaria", S.T. Coleridge. Part 2 Latercritical comment: Thomas Noon Ialfourd; John Stuart Mill; WalterHoratio Pater; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Andrew Cecil Bradley. Part 3Twentieth century opinions: poems of 1807, Helen Darbishire; changingpatterns of communication in Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" and 1807"Poems", Muriel J.Mellown; resolution and independence - Wordsworth'scoming of age, Albert Gerard; Wordsworth's "Solitary Reaper", G.IngliJames; Wordsworth and the poetry of sincerity, David Perkins;reintegration, J.R.Watson; "The Kitten and the Falling Leaves", BrianCosgrove; the design of Wordsworth's sonnets, G.M.Harvey; ambiguity andassertion in Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas", J.D.O'Hara; Wordsworth's"Ode" - obstinate questionings, Florence Marsh; design in the"Immortality Ode", Jared Curtis.