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
Recenzijas
John Worthens engaging new biography of Wordsworth begins by quoting the poets 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). . . Worthens book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring. (The Review of English Studies, 15 October 2014)
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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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3 | (15) |
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2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783--7 |
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18 | (19) |
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37 | (16) |
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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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183 | (15) |
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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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265 | (19) |
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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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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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29 No Resting Place: 1843--50 |
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| Afterword |
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| Bibliography |
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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).
