Wordsworth: A LifeHarper Collins, 29 нояб. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 576 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 daughter and became a committed Republican. His poetry was as revolutionary as his politics, challenging convention in form, style, and subject, and earning him the universal derision and contempt of critics. Only the unfailing encouragement of a tightly knit group of supporters, his family, and, above all, Coleridge kept him true to his poetic vocation. In the half-century that followed his reputation was transformed. His advocacy of the importance of imagination and feeling touched a chord in an increasingly industrial, mechanistic age, and his influence was profoundly and widely felt in every sphere of life. In the last decade of his life, Rydal Mount, his home for thirty-seven years, became a place of pilgrimage, not just for the great and powerful in Church and state, but also, more touchingly, for the hundreds of ordinary people who came to pay their respects to his genius. In what is, astonishingly, the first biography of Wordsworth to treat the latter part of his life as fully as the first, Juliet Barker balances meticulous research with a readable style, and scrupulous objectivity with an understanding of her subject. She reveals not only the public figure who was courted and reviled in equal measure but also the complex, elusive, private man behind that image. Drawing on unpublished sources, she vividly re-creates the intimacy of Wordsworth's domestic circle, showing the love, laughter, loyalty, and tragedies that bound them together. Far from being the remote, cold, solitary figure of legend, Wordsworth emerges from his biography as a passionate, vibrant man who lived for his family, his poetry, and his beloved Lakeland. His legacy, as a poet and as the spiritual founder of the conservation movement, remains with us today. |
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... appeared like a grave . He turned and ran . Regaining the summit , the first thing he saw was the strange juxtaposition of the beacon , a pool of water and a girl with a pitcher of water on her head struggling to walk against the wind ...
... appearing in the issue of March 1787 under the pseudonym ' Axiologus ' , William's Greek translation of his own surname . The decision to hide behind an assumed name was a convention and did not imply any wish to distance himself from ...
... appearance , for the cut and make of his clothes marked him out as an uncouth northerner and therefore an object of amusement to the sophisticated gentlemen of the university . He was dispatched to buy something more appropriate to his ...
... appearance . Filled with ' a parent's pride ' in her boy , she insisted on taking him round the village and showing him off to all her neighbours . William was more than willing to go with her ; it was an opportu- nity to display the ...
... appearance , gaunt , thin and seemingly of preternatural height , leaning against a milestone perfectly still . The shock ... appeared To prey upon my strength , and stopped the course . And quiet stream of self - forgetfulness . Prelude ...
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A Patriot of the World 17934 | 79 |
Benighted Heart and Mind 17946 ΤΟΙ 7 A Sett of Violent Democrats 17968 | 122 |
The Giant Wordsworth 17989 | 145 |
The Concern 17991800 | 171 |
Io Home at Grasmere 18001802 | 191 |
Increasing Influence 181416 | 332 |
Bombastes Furioso 181720 | 349 |
A Tour of the Continent 182022 | 367 |
Idle Mount 18236 | 382 |
Shades of the Prisonhouse 18269 | 396 |
Furiously Alarmist 182933 | 410 |
Falling Leaves 18336 | 427 |
Coming Home 18369 | 446 |
The Set is Broken 18025 | 215 |
Acquiring the Quiet Mind 18056 | 236 |
The Convention of Cintra 18079 | 256 |
The Blessedest of Men 180911 | 276 |
Suffer the Little Children 181112 | 293 |
The Excursion 181314 | 312 |
Real Greatness 183942 | 463 |
Poet Laureate 18425 | 477 |
Fixed and Irremovable Grief 18457 | 494 |
Bowed to the Dust 184750 | 512 |
Epilogue 185059 | 525 |
Index | 527 |