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the first biography to fully examine Wordsworth's entire life, critically acclaimed biographer Juliet Barker draws on unpublished sources to present a new picture of him as both public icon and private family man.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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... Family. Tree. *After his mother's death in 1792, Christopher Cookson adopted her family name of Crackanthorpe, which descended to his children. William Cookson = Dorothy Crackanthorpe 1711–87 1719–92 Christopher Crackanthorpe = Family ...
... death. 'Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being . . . but it was not so much from animal vivacity that my difficulty came as from a sense of the ...
A Life Juliet Barker. 2. A. Poor,. Devoted. Crew. John Wordsworth's death left his children destitute. They had no parents, no home and, because he left no will (which seems remarkably careless for a lawyer), no money. The children's two ...
... 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 bestowed'. She had been a child of six when they had parted and was now a young lady ...
... death signalled a dispersal of the household, for the moment 'poor Dolly', as she called herself, continued to live with her grandmother and uncles. William, far away from such traumas, had probably spent the brief month of his vacation ...
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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 |