By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworths early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poets most creative period of life and writing.
- Features new research into Wordsworths 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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| Acknowledgments |
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| Abbreviations and Texts |
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| Foreword: "The Prelude": A Poem of My Own Life? |
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1 Versions of Home: 1770--83 |
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2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783--7 |
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4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790--1 |
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5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791--3 |
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69 | (22) |
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6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793--5 |
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93 | (20) |
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113 | (22) |
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8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797--8 |
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135 | (22) |
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157 | (16) |
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10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 |
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173 | (10) |
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11 Writing in Goslar: 1798--9 |
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12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799--1800 |
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198 | (15) |
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213 | (128) |
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13 "Home at Grasmere", the "Ode", "Michael": 1800--1 |
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215 | (26) |
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241 | (8) |
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249 | (16) |
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16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 |
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17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802--3 |
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284 | (19) |
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19 "The Prelude" II: 1804--5 |
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315 | (13) |
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20 "Elegiac Stanzas", Poems, in Two Volumes: 1806--7 |
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Part IV The Light of Common Day |
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21 "The Recluse" and The Convention of Cintra: 1808--9 |
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343 | (13) |
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22 Loss and Grief: 1809--12 |
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356 | (12) |
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23 Stamp--officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812--14 |
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368 | (19) |
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24 "What though it be past": 1814 |
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387 | (10) |
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Part V Sketches of Late Years |
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25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815--18 |
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399 | (8) |
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26 Peter Bell and "the ghosts of what they were": 1819--26 |
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27 "The Recluse" and "The Prelude": 1827--33 |
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418 | (11) |
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28 The Past Enshrined: 1834--42 |
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429 | (10) |
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29 No Resting Place: 1843--50 |
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| Afterword |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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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 18851912 (1991).
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