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Wordsworth: A Life
The figure of William Wordsworth looms over the nineteenth century like a presiding genius. Sage, seer, and Poet Laureate, Wordsworth was revered by his Victorian contemporaries as a writer of tender, lyrical poetry, a controversial challenger of social and artistic convention,...
Wordsworth
William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate...
Wordsworth : A Life in Letters
Wordsworth: A Life In Letters
Penguin Classics Wordsworth a Life in Letters
William Wordsworth is usually remembered as the quintessential Victorian Poet Laureate: a dull worthy establishment figure with impeccable middle class Tory Anglican credentials whose moralistic poetry has been required reading for generations of yawning school children. Yet...
Wordsworth: A life
William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate...
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