{"product_id":"the-life-of-william-wordsworth-a-critical-biography-hardback-9780470655443","title":"The Life of William Wordsworth; A Critical Biography (Hardback) 9780470655443","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life of William Wordsworth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critical Biography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is an original and richly informed life of the great poet, both sympathetic and sceptical. John Worthen has brought a fresh pair of eyes to many aspects of Wordsworth's biography, and the result is a vivid and persuasive account of a remarkable personality.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeamus Perry\u003c\/i\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Worthen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780470655443, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e504 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.794 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u0026amp; read j Their looks forbidding’, he says, ‘read \u0026amp; disobey’ (p. 3). . . Worthen’s book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring.”  (\u003ci\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e 15 October 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The Recluse’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Texts xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword: “The Prelude”: A Poem of My Own Life? xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Early Years 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Versions of Home: 1770–83 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783–7 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Cambridge: 1787–90 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790–1 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791–3 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Writer 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793–5 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Racedown: 1795–7 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797–8 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e: 1798 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Writing in Goslar: 1798–9 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799–1800 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Town-End 213\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Home at Grasmere,” the “Ode,” “Michael”: 1800–1 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Hurting: 1800–1 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Marrying: 1801–2 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802–3 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 “The Prelude” I: 1804 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 “The Prelude” II: 1804–5 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 “Elegiac Stanzas,” \u003ci\u003ePoems, in Two Volumes\u003c\/i\u003e: 1806–7 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Light of Common Day 341\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 “The Recluse” and \u003ci\u003eThe Convention of Cintra\u003c\/i\u003e: 1808–9 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Loss and Grief: 1809–12 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Stamp-officer and Poet of \u003ci\u003eThe Excursion\u003c\/i\u003e: 1812–14 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 “What though it be past”: 1814 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Sketches of Late Years 397\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815–18 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 \u003ci\u003ePeter Bell \u003c\/i\u003eand “the ghosts of what they were”: 1819–26 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 “The Recluse” and “The Prelude”: 1827–33 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Past Enshrined: 1834–42 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 No Resting Place: 1843–50 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 451\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 457\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52516427890968,"sku":"9780470655443","price":71.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780470655443.jpg?v=1786688629","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-life-of-william-wordsworth-a-critical-biography-hardback-9780470655443","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}