Geoffrey Hartman is the author, most recently, of Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (2002). Some of his previous books include: The Unmediated Vision (1954); Wordsworth's Poetry (1964); Beyond Formalism (1970); The Fate of Reading (1975); Criticism in the Wilderness (1980); The Unremarkable Wordsworth (1987); The Longest Shadow (1996); and The Fateful Question of Culture (1997).