The Life of William Wordsworth

Informationen zum Autor JOHN WORTHEN is Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, UK. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010), Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician (2007), D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005), The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 (2001), and D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 (1991). Klappentext By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing.* Features new research into Wordsworth's financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially* Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem 'The Recluse'* Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge Zusammenfassung By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xAbbreviations and Texts xiiForeword: "The Prelude": A Poem of My Own Life? xviiPart I Early Years 11 Versions of Home: 1770-83 32 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783-7 183 Cambridge: 1787-90 374 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790-1 535 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791-3 69Part II Writer 916 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793-5 937 Racedown: 1795-7 1138 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797-8 135 9Lyrical Ballads: 1798 15710 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 17311 Writing in Goslar: 1798-9 18312 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799-1800 198Part III Town-End 21313 "Home at Grasmere," the "Ode," "Michael": 1800-1 21514 Hurting: 1800-1 24115 Marrying: 1801-2 24916 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 26517 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802-3 28418 "The Prelude" I: 1804 30319 "The Prelude" II: 1804-5 31520 "Elegiac Stanzas," Poems, in Two Volumes : 1806-7 328Part IV The Light of Common Day 34121 "The Recluse" and The Convention of Cintra: 1808-9 34322 Loss and Grief: 1809-12 35623 Stamp-officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812-14 36824 "What though it be past": 1814 387Part V Sketches of Late Years 39725 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815-18 399 26Peter Bell and "the ghosts of what they were": 1819-26 40727 "The Recluse" and "The Prelude": 1827-33 41828 The Past Enshrined: 1834-42 42929 No Resting Place: 1843-50 439Afterword 447Bibliography 451Index 457...

Autorentext
John Worthen is Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. His books include D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 (1991), The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802 (2001), D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005), Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician (2007), and The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010).

Klappentext
By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing. * Features new research into Wordsworth's financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially * Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem 'The Recluse' * Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge

Zusammenfassung
By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments x Abbreviations and Texts xii Foreword: "The Prelude": A Poem of My Own Life? xvii Part I Early Years 1 1 Versions of Home: 1770-83 3 2 Hawkshead and Esthwaite: 1783-7 18 3 Cambridge: 1787-90 37 4 To the Alps: and What Followed: 1790-1 53 5 Annette Vallon, Michel de Beaupuy, and the Bishop of Llandaff: 1791-3 69 Part II Writer 91 6 Salisbury Plain and its Consequences: 1793-5 93 7 Racedown: 1795-7 113 8 Coleridge and Alfoxton: 1797-8 135 9 Lyrical Ballads: 1798 157 10 Hamburg to the Harz: 1798 173 11 Writing in Goslar: 1798-9 183 12 Sockburn to Grasmere: 1799-1800 198 Part III Town-End 213 13 "Home at Grasmere," the "Ode," "Michael": 1800-1 215 14 Hurting: 1800-1 241 15 Marrying: 1801-2 249 16 Grasmere to Calais and on to Gallow Hill: 1802 265 17 Marriage, First Child, and the Trip to Scotland: 1802-3 284 18 "The Prelude" I: 1804 303 19 "The Prelude" II: 1804-5 315 20 "Elegiac Stanzas," Poems, in Two Volumes : 1806-7 328 Part IV The Light of Common Day 341 21 "The Recluse" and The Convention of Cintra: 1808-9 343 22 Loss and Grief: 1809-12 356 23 Stamp-officer and Poet of The Excursion: 1812-14 368 24 "What though it be past": 1814 387 Part V Sketches of Late Years 397 25 Poetry, Family, and Polemic: 1815-18 399 26 Peter Bell and "the ghosts of what they were": 1819-26 407 27 "The Recluse" and "The Prelude": 1827-33 418 28 The Past Enshrined: 1834-42 429 29 No Resting Place: 1843-50 439 Afterword 447 Bibliography 451 Index 457

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