{"product_id":"the-life-of-william-wordsworth-isbn-9780470655443","title":"The Life of William Wordsworth","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The Recluse’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and Texts xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword: “The Prelude”: A Poem of My Own Life? xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Early Years 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Versions of Home: 1770–83 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783–7 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Cambridge: 1787–90 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790–1 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791–3 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Writer 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793–5 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Racedown: 1795–7 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797–8 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e: 1798 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Writing in Goslar: 1798–9 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799–1800 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Town-End 213\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Home at Grasmere,” the “Ode,” “Michael”: 1800–1 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Hurting: 1800–1 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Marrying: 1801–2 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802–3 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 “The Prelude” I: 1804 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 “The Prelude” II: 1804–5 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 “Elegiac Stanzas,” \u003ci\u003ePoems, in Two Volumes\u003c\/i\u003e: 1806–7 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Light of Common Day 341\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 “The Recluse” and \u003ci\u003eThe Convention of Cintra\u003c\/i\u003e: 1808–9 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Loss and Grief: 1809–12 356\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Stamp-officer and Poet of \u003ci\u003eThe Excursion\u003c\/i\u003e: 1812–14 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 “What though it be past”: 1814 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Sketches of Late Years 397\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815–18 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 \u003ci\u003ePeter Bell \u003c\/i\u003eand “the ghosts of what they were”: 1819–26 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 “The Recluse” and “The Prelude”: 1827–33 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Past Enshrined: 1834–42 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 No Resting Place: 1843–50 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 451\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 457\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“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 \u0026amp; read j Their looks forbidding’, he says, ‘read \u0026amp; disobey’ (p. 3). . . Worthen’s book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring.”  (\u003ci\u003eThe Review of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e 15 October 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN WORTHEN\u003c\/b\u003e 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).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBLACKWELL CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an original and richly informed life of the great poet, both sympathetic and skeptical. John Worthen has brought a fresh pair of eyes to many aspects of Wordsworth's biography, and the result is a vivid and persuasive account of a remarkable personality.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSEAMUS PERRY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is no secret that William Wordsworth's early years were marked by poverty. But just how important was a lack of money in shaping the poet's character and career? By delving deeply into the circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, biographer John Worthen reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing. We discover how rebellious and pig-headed the young Wordsworth needed to be in order to survive; we observe the critical role Dorothy played in unleashing her brother's poetic genius; we realize the importance of Lakeland's \"Dove Cottage\" to him (it was wonderfully cheap); we appreciate the nature of the great \"philosophical\" poem The Recluse, which occupied so much of Wordsworth's poetic career; and we understand the importance (far too often under-rated) of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to him. Scholarly and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of William Wordsworth: A Critical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e breathes new life into our understanding of the life and work of this great English poet.   \"This is an original and richly informed life of the great poet, both sympathetic and sceptical. John Worthen has brought a fresh pair of eyes to many aspects of Wordsworth's biography, and the result is a vivid and persuasive account of a remarkable personality.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeamus Perry\u003c\/i\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990278848741,"sku":"NP9780470655443","price":120.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470655443.jpg?v=1761787175","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-life-of-william-wordsworth-isbn-9780470655443","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}