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the first biography to fully examine Wordsworth's entire life, critically acclaimed biographer Juliet Barker draws on unpublished sources to present a new picture of him as both public icon and private family man.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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... remained together, the course of both their lives might have been very different. At the very least, Dorothy's love for her brother might never have acquired the somewhat desperate quality of their later years. A parting was at hand ...
... remained at Penrith, where they were old enough to attend Ann Birkhead's Dame School, though too young for Cockermouth Grammar. Dorothy, only six years old, could not remain in a house full of males, so it was decided that she would go ...
... remained a stout defender of such reading all his life; it might not be 'improving literature' of the type favoured by moralists, but it fostered the imagination. The child whose love is here, at least does reap One precious gain – that ...
... night ranging over the fells alone to set his traps. Best of all, when winter came and the shallower lakes froze over, there was ice-skating, a sport at which William excelled and which remained 10 The Child is Father of the Man.
... remained a lifelong passion. As an old man, he was observed skating on White Moss Tarn, at Grasmere, one hand tucked into his shirt front, the other into his waist band; his foot caught on a stone and he fell with a crash that starred ...
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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 |