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This course will read the major writings of William Wordsworth as experiments in tracking feeling between individual and multitude. It will take advantage of two currents in recent criticism to work through the problem of how one feels with and for large numbers. On the one hand, this requires taking up models of sympathy and feeling that depart from those established since the eighteenth century, where models of sympathy relied on a 1-1 relationship between human persons. These alternative models attend to “multitudes,” and thus a different scale of life, human and not (e.g. Spinoza, Virno, Hardt and Negri). On the other hand, reading Wordsworth in this light requires a reconsideration of the art of numbers – that is, poetry – alongside and sometimes in opposition to the science of numbers called political economy.