Core Aims of the Project

The major aims of the project are:

• to produce a site of the highest scholarly quality, encouraging increased access to and understanding of Wordsworth's draft materials.

• to draw upon the excellence of the Cornell series using electronic media to enlarge access to those materials.

• to create an accessible site capable of being used in different ways by specialists, non-specialists and schools.

• to advance the application of text-encoding (TEI) and a dynamic database for literary documents and manuscript materials.

• to consider some of the issues and difficulties that would be involved in undertaking a major electronic project for the larger body of Wordsworth's manuscripts.