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Part 1 Poetry, language and difference: dialogues with the dead -conversation and cultural bequest; speaking to the dead - cultural bequest;conversation and cultural bequest (ii) - "Matthew". Part 2 Community: "poemson the naming of places"; aesthetic and economic values - "Michael"; dialogueand community - "The Brothers"; the communal and the oral (i) - the balladdebate; the communal and the oral (ii) - "The Thorn"; community andconversation - "Goody Blake and Harry Gill"; community and politics; "Home atGrasmere" - utopias and dead-ends. Part 3 Power: dispersing power - taste;power and knowledge - (i) history; power and knowledge - (ii) education;sequence and syntax; the discourse of relationship. Part 4 Familialauthority: nature, desire and guilt; paternity and its discontents; childhoodand socialization; female solitude - "Louisa", "To a Young Lady"; daughtersand writers - "The Triad". Part 5 Vision and time - a critique of metaphor:figuration and habit; Wordsworth and Scott - "The White Doe of Rylstone";figuration and narrative; memory, figuration, narrative; erasing the visual;art and the visual. Part 6 The collaborative imagination - place, time andtextuality in some later poems: designs and intentions; the dispersal of theself; language and the local; the Yarrow poems; collaboration and patronage -Wordsworth and Beaumont.