John Worthen

The Life of William Wordsworth (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Biography

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118604939
• Artikelnr.: 40431626

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments x Abbreviations and Texts xii Foreword: "The Prelude": A Poem of My Own Life? xvii Part I Early Years 1 1 Versions of Home: 1770
83 3 2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783
7 18 3 Cambridge: 1787
90 37 4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790
1 53 5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791
3 69 Part II Writer 91 6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793
5 93 7 Racedown: 1795
7 113 8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797
8 135 9 Lyrical Ballads: 1798 157 10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 173 11 Writing in Goslar: 1798
9 183 12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799
1800 198 Part III Town
End 213 13 "Home at Grasmere," the "Ode," "Michael": 1800
1 215 14 Hurting: 1800
1 241 15 Marrying: 1801
2 249 16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 265 17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802
3 284 18 "The Prelude" I: 1804 303 19 "The Prelude" II: 1804
5 315 20 "Elegiac Stanzas," Poems, in Two Volumes : 1806
7 328 Part IV The Light of Common Day 341 21 "The Recluse" and The Convention of Cintra: 1808
9 343 22 Loss and Grief: 1809
12 356 23 Stamp
officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812
14 368 24 "What though it be past": 1814 387 Part V Sketches of Late Years 397 25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815
18 399 26 Peter Bell and "the ghosts of what they were": 1819
26 407 27 "The Recluse" and "The Prelude": 1827
33 418 28 The Past Enshrined: 1834
42 429 29 No Resting Place: 1843
50 439 Afterword 447 Bibliography 451 Index 457

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)