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the first biography to fully examine Wordsworth's entire life, critically acclaimed biographer Juliet Barker draws on unpublished sources to present a new picture of him as both public icon and private family man.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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... hands of the Cookson servants, who treated them with an insolence bordering on contempt. James was the worst offender and ... hand, but my heart failed.' William and his siblings may not have enjoyed staying with their grandparents, but ...
... hand, however. Ann Wordsworth had consumption and she died at Penrith, aged only thirty, on 8 March 1778. Her eldest child was nine, the youngest only three; William himself was not quite eight years old. Extraordinary as it may seem ...
... hand tucked into his shirt front, the other into his waist band; his foot caught on a stone and he fell with a crash ... hands. And they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call, – with quivering peals ...
... hands, naming specifically Langhorne's poems, Beattie's Minstrel and Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. These, with the poems of Cowper and Burns, were to be critically important to William's development as a poet and they ...
... hand', was acutely observed 'with great benefit to my own heart when I was a child –'. The two thieves, Old Daniel and his three-yearold grandson, wandering through the streets and pilfering whatever came their way, yet tolerated 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 |