The entries are indexed, three times over, under the headings, 'Works by Wordsworth', 'Subjects and Persons', and 'Authors and Editors'. Meticulously organized, this bibliography is extremely easy to use, and will be an invaluable tool for students of Wordsworth, at all levels, for many years. Hanley explains his methods of selection in 'Advice to the reader', and, since he cannot be exhaustive, he is generous in the detail of his entries, often listing the poems on which a work focuses, as well as indicating its theoretical orientation.
Adverse criticism is extremely rare.
Every Wordsworth scholar who chooses may quibble. Details from older criticism are interestingly chosen, so as silently to point towards later critical developments. Many details are selected with great poise. It is such that give this volume its great browsability. And serendipity creates provoking patterns of its own.