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the first biography to fully examine Wordsworth's entire life, critically acclaimed biographer Juliet Barker draws on unpublished sources to present a new picture of him as both public icon and private family man.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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A Life Juliet Barker. Such tales were to be the raw material of the later poet; as a boy, listening entranced by Ann Tyson's fireside, they wove a magic as potent as that of The Arabian Nights. As William grew older, he grew more ...
... later explain of this period in his life, '& I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from but inherent in my own immaterial nature. Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from ...
... later become the Wordsworths' advocate in the Lowther suit, though he is better known to posterity as the older brother of Fletcher Christian, of Mutiny on the Bounty fame. Christian was succeeded by the Reverend William Taylor, who ...
... later become: the first account of his waiting for the horses coming to take him home, for instance, and some lovely lines descriptive of Lakeland scenery, including the earliest version of the last stanza of his poem addressed to his ...
... later call 'the instincts of immortality'. For I would walk alone In storm and tempest, or in starlight nights Beneath the quiet heavens, and at that time Have felt whate'er there is of power in sound To breathe an elevated mood, by ...
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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 |