{"product_id":"wordsworth-9781405113694","title":"Wordsworth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth''s poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth''s great poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains the importance of the poet''s great, unfinished epic ''The Recluse'' to his work as a whole.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains the first annotated text of ''The White Doe of Rylstone''.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Stephen Gill, Oxford University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWordsworth: An Inner Life\u003c\/i\u003e shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's \"inner life\", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism.\" Religious Studies Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Texts xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 ‘Perhaps my pains might be beguil’d 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘In black Helvellyn’s inmost womb’ 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Charg’d by magic’ 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 ‘The world is poisoned at the heart’ 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 ‘Their life is hidden with God’ 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘The vital spirit of a perfect form’ 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: October 1798-April 1799 118\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Parts I and II: April-May 1799 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: May-December 1799 146\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘Serious musing and self-reproach’ 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘I yearn towards some philosophic song’ 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 ‘That vast Abiding-place’ 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘I only look’d for pain and grief’ 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘Forbearance \u0026amp; self-sacrifice’ 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 ‘O teach me calm submission to thy will’ 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: The White Doe of Rylstone (1808 Text) and it’s ‘Advertizement’ 316\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 361\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407848677719,"sku":"9781405113694","price":48.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405113694.jpg?v=1730500729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wordsworth-9781405113694","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}