Wordsworth
An Inner Life
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:12th Sep '03
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This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813.
- Looks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth's great poetry.
- Explains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic 'The Recluse' to his work as a whole.
- Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.
- Contains the first annotated text of 'The White Doe of Rylstone'.
"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight." Professor Stephen Gill, Oxford University
"Wordsworth: An Inner Life shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar." Times Literary Supplement
"This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts." Times Higher Education Supplement
"In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's "inner life", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism." Religious Studies Review
ISBN: 9781405113694
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
Weight: 590g
400 pages