The life of William Wordsworth : a critical biography / John Worthen ; Nicki Averill, cover designer and illustration.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Averill, Nicki.

Series:

Blackwell critical biographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, English--19th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Wordsworth, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Chichester, England ; Malden, Massachusetts : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

Summary:

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 financiallyOffers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem 'The Recluse'Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Texts; Foreword: ""The Prelude"": A Poem of My Own Life?; Part I Early Years; Chapter 1 Versions of Home: 1770-83; Chapter 2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783-7; Chapter 3 Cambridge: 1787-90; Chapter 4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790-1; Chapter 5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791-3; Part II Writer; Chapter 6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793-5; Chapter 7 Racedown: 1795-7; Chapter 8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797-8; Chapter 9 Lyrical Ballads: 1798

Chapter 10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798Chapter 11 Writing in Goslar: 1798-9; Chapter 12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799-1800; Part III Town-End; Chapter 13 ""Home at Grasmere,"" the ""Ode,"" ""Michael"": 1800-1; Chapter 14 Hurting: 1800-1; Chapter 15 Marrying: 1801-2; Chapter 16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802; Chapter 17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802-3; Chapter 18 ""The Prelude"" I: 1804; Chapter 19 ""The Prelude"" II: 1804-5; Chapter 20 ""Elegiac Stanzas,"" Poems, in Two Volumes: 1806-7; Part IV The Light of Common Day

Chapter 21 ""The Recluse"" and The Convention of Cintra: 1808-9Chapter 22 Loss and Grief: 1809-12; Chapter 23 Stamp-officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812-14; Chapter 24 ""What though it be past"": 1814; Part V Sketches of Late Years; Chapter 25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815-18; Chapter 26 Peter Bell and ""the ghosts of what they were"": 1819-26; Chapter 27 ""The Recluse"" and ""The Prelude"": 1827-33; Chapter 28 The Past Enshrined: 1834-42; Chapter 29 No Resting Place: 1843-50; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-60495-4

1-118-60493-8

OCLC:

874157938