John Worthen

eBook, PDF

The Life of William Wordsworth (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Biography

Beschreibung

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

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 110.79MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

JOHN WORTHEN is Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, UK. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010), Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician (2007), D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005), The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 (2001), and D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885¿1912 (1991).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118604939
• Artikelnr.: 40431626

Rezensionen

"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)