Wordsworth: A LifeHarper Collins, 13 окт. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 592 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, a devoted champion of country life, and the spiritual founder of the conservation movement. In this masterful work, the first biography to fully examine Wordsworth's entire life, critically acclaimed biographer Juliet Barker draws on unpublished sources to present a new picture of him as both public icon and private family man. Balancing meticulous research with engaging prose, she reveals not only the public figure who was courted and reviled in equal measure but also the complex, elusive, private citizen behind that image, vividly re-creating the intimacy of Wordsworth's domestic circle, showing the love, laughter, loyalty, and tragedies that bound them together. Wordsworth is a major biography of one of the world's foremost poets, and a rich, unforgettable portrait of a fascinating and fiercely passionate man. |
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... Dorothy. Only eighteen months younger than William, she shared his sensitivity to nature and his passionate love for it. What she had uniquely, however, was a sensibility so remarkable that it became a byword in the family. Though Dorothy ...
... Dorothy soon came to realize that she could not have found a better home. Elizabeth was already responsible for her five orphaned nieces and nephews and no greater tribute to her could be paid than Dorothy's simple statement: 'the loss ...
... Dorothy had come to live with her grandparents and, for the first time since the death of their mother, just over nine years before, the Wordsworth children would be together again. Dorothy seemed to William like 'a gift then first ...
... Dorothy's insistence on the affection of her brothers is indicative of the depth of her own emotional need. 'Many a time have William, J, C, and myself shed tears together,' she told Jane, 'tears of the bitterest sorrow, we all of us ...
... Dorothy 'was then as henceforth my chosen Companion; thro' life she continued to be.' The two girls must have made an odd contrast. Dorothy, small and thin, her brown hair worn in light curls, frizzed and turned under at the ends, and ...
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A Patriot of the World 17934 | 79 |
Benighted Heart and Mind 17946 | 101 |
A Sett of Violent Democrats 17968 | 122 |
The Giant Wordsworth 17989 | 145 |
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 Concern 17991800 | 171 |
Home at Grasmere 18001802 | 191 |
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 |