{"product_id":"wordsworth-an-inner-life-hardback-9780631206385","title":"Wordsworth; An Inner Life (Hardback) 9780631206385","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWordsworth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Inner Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDuncan Wu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631206385, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 16 x 3.5 cm, 0.726 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\"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Stephen Gill, Oxford University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWordsworth: An Inner Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's \"inner life\", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism.\" Religious Studies Review\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\"\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth's great poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic 'The Recluse' to his work as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains the first annotated text of 'The White Doe of Rylstone'.\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 vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Texts xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘Perhaps my pains might be beguil’d 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘In black Helvellyn’s inmost womb’ 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Charg’d by magic’ 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘The world is poisoned at the heart’ 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘Their life is hidden with God’ 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘The vital spirit of a perfect form’ 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: October 1798-April 1799 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Parts I and II: April-May 1799 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: May-December 1799 146\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘Serious musing and self-reproach’ 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘I yearn towards some philosophic song’ 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 ‘That vast Abiding-place’ 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘I only look’d for pain and grief’ 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘Forbearance \u0026amp; self-sacrifice’ 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘O teach me calm submission to thy will’ 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: The White Doe of Rylstone (1808 Text) and it’s ‘Advertizement’ 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 361\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":52316797993240,"sku":"9780631206385","price":102.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631206385.jpg?v=1781825738","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/wordsworth-an-inner-life-hardback-9780631206385","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}