William Wordsworth: A Life - Hardcover

Gill, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198128282 ISBN 13: 9780198128281

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1989

Synopsis

This biography of Wordsworth for the general reader takes account of the new information that has come to light in recent years. Officially Wordsworth was opposed to biography, parrying enquiries with the remark that his life was "bare of entertainment and interest" but the author views autobiography as the fundamental source of his work, as he wrote about real places and people; he memorialized his own experiences and recollections, his family, old friends and individuals met with in a chance encounters. Stephen Gill aims to present an insight into the development of his mind and the effects of old age on the poet's view of himself, his family and friends and on matters of the public and the private. The author examines all the evidence relating to Wordsworth's life and to his circle and balances this against Wordsworth's own accounts. Stephen Gill is the editor of the Oxford authors "William Wordsworth".

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Review:

"This is the essential Wordsworth anthology of the present, with sound notes and texts that ask all the current questions."--Keith Hanley, University of Notre Dame"Excellent anthology of Wordsworth's work."--Alan Lin, UCSC"A beautiful edition. I'll be certain to use this one for my Romanticism course."--Christopher Moylan, New York Institute of Technology"An excellent text with a new approach--to present Wordsworth as his contemporaries read him."--Leonidas M. Jones, University of Vermont"The only text for an undergraduate or graduate course which is serious about putting Wordsworth's poetry in its historical context."--Aline Fairweather, Temple University

Book Description:

A selection of William Wordsworth poems, as chosen by Seamus Heaney, join a series in which Faber and Faber presents eight beautiful editions of classic Romantic poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0198128282
• ISBN 13: 9780198128281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 545