Worthen The Life of William Wordsworth

A Critical Biography
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-60493-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies

By examining the family and financial circumstances ofWordsworth's early years, this illuminating biographyreshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's mostcreative period of life and writing.
* Features new research into Wordsworth's financialsituation, and into how the poet and his family survivedfinancially
* Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwrittenpoem 'The Recluse'
* Presents a new assessment of the relationship betweenWordsworth and Coleridge

Autoren/Hrsg.

Worthen, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments x
Abbreviations and Texts xii
Foreword: "The Prelude": A Poem of My Own Life?xvii
Part I Early Years 1
1 Versions of Home: 1770-83 3
2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783-7 18
3 Cambridge: 1787-90 37
4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790-1 53
5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff:1791-3 69
Part II Writer 91
6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793-5 93
7 Racedown: 1795-7 113
8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797-8 135 9
Lyrical Ballads: 1798 157
10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 173
11 Writing in Goslar: 1798-9 183
12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799-1800 198
Part III Town-End 213
13 "Home at Grasmere," the "Ode,""Michael": 1800-1 215
14 Hurting: 1800-1 241
15 Marrying: 1801-2 249
16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 265
17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802-3284
18 "The Prelude" I: 1804 303
19 "The Prelude" II: 1804-5 315
20 "Elegiac Stanzas," Poems, in Two Volumes :1806-7 328
Part IV The Light of Common Day 341
21 "The Recluse" and The Convention ofCintra: 1808-9 343
22 Loss and Grief: 1809-12 356
23 Stamp-officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812-14368
24 "What though it be past": 1814 387
Part V Sketches of Late Years 397
25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815-18 399 26
Peter Bell and "the ghosts of what theywere": 1819-26 407
27 "The Recluse" and "The Prelude":1827-33 418
28 The Past Enshrined: 1834-42 429
29 No Resting Place: 1843-50 439
Afterword 447
Bibliography 451
Index 457

Über Autor(innen)

John Worthen is Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. His books include D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 (1991), The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 (2001), D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005), Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician (2007), and The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010).