{"product_id":"life-of-william-wordsworth-9780470655443","title":"Life of William Wordsworth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402388250967,"sku":"9780470655443","price":84.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470655443.jpg?v=1730480247","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-of-william-wordsworth-9780470655443","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}