The Life of William Wordsworth
A Critical Biography
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:28th Mar '14
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By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing.
- Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially
- Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The Recluse’
- Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge <
“John Worthen’s engaging new biography of Wordsworth begins by quoting the poet’s recollection of himself at around the age of 10, surveying tall trees, black chasms, and dizzy crags: ‘I loved to stand and & read j Their looks forbidding’, he says, ‘read & disobey’ (p. 3). . . Worthen’s book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring.” (The Review of English Studies, 15 October 2014)
ISBN: 9780470655443
Dimensions: 239mm x 160mm x 28mm
Weight: 794g
504 pages