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This striking portrait, taken from letters and autobiographical fragments carefully selected by Juliet Barker, illuminates Wordworth’s life from his childhood to his death in 1850. It reveals the rebellious schoolboy who became a supporter of the French Revolution, the radical young poet who rose to be a revered patriarch, and the intensely private man who loved and cared deeply for his family.
Praise for Wordsworth: A Life:
‘Works surprisingly well … cleverly combining, as Barker has done here, his own letters with those of his family and with other documents, including extracts from diaries and journals’ - Adam Sisman, Literary Review
‘Reveals the character of the romantic poet through his own voluminous and expressive correspondence’ - History Today
‘Barker’s judicious selection shows us Wordsworth the writer in a way not possible in a biography that seeks to explain the life as well. There is a greatness in Wordsworth’s very doggedness [and] Barker allows us to hear the man himself, greatness and all’ - Kate Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph
‘Intense, shrewd … [gives] the general impression of Wordsworth as a recognisably decent, kind and likeable person’ – Andrew Motion, Financial Times
Juliet Barker is an Oxford graduate, historian and writer who was born – and still lives – in Yorkshire. She has written biographies of Wordsworth and the Brontës, and was curator and librarian of the Brontë Parsonage Museum for several years.
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wordsworth's life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry collections and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your Kindle a taste of the original texts
* All versions of the famous ‘Lyrical Ballads’, including all of Coleridge’s contributions
* Excellent formatting of over 950 poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Features all three versions of 'The Prelude' - explore Wordsworth's masterpiece in comprehensive detail
* The complete prose works, will fully working contents tables
* Includes Dorothy Wordsworth's famous travel writing book - spend hours exploring Wordsworth’s adventures with his sister and Coleridge
* Features F. W. H. Myers’ famous and detailed biography - explore Wordsworth's literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with Dorothy Wordsworth's journals - discover what led to the creating of English literature's most famous poetry collaboration, Lyrical Ballads
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CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections and Major Works
POEMS WRITTEN IN YOUTH
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH A FEW OTHER POEMS
LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS
POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES
THE EXCURSION
LAODAMIA
THE PRELUDE
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Prose Works
LIST OF PROSE WORKS
Dorothy Wordsworth’s Works
RECOLLECTIONS OF A TOUR MADE IN SCOTLAND A.D. 1803
THE ALFOXDEN JOURNAL, 1798
THE GRASMERE JOURNAL, 1800-1803
The Biography
WORDSWORTH by F. W. H. Myers
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Among them are poems from the revolutionary Lyrical Ballads of 1798, including the well-known "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abby"; the famous "Lucy" series of 1799; the political and social commentaries of 1802; the moving "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; and the great "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" — all reprinted from an authoritative edition.
Published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads is a dazzling collaboration containing twenty-three poems by close friends, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) - two major figures of English Romanticism. The volume heralded a new approach to poetry and expresses the poets' reflections on mankind's relationship with the forces of the world. Coleridge's contribution includes the nightmarish vision of 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere', one of the works for which he became best known, as well as the fantastical conversational poem 'The Foster-Mother's Tale' and the melancholic 'The Nightingale'. Wordsworth's 'We are Seven' depicts a child's naïve optimism in the face of the cruel mortality, while 'Goody Blake and Harry Gill' and 'Simon Lee' celebrate the simplicity and strength he perceived in country people, and 'Tintern Abbey' explores the healing powers of nature.
Published as part of the Penguin Poetry First Editions series in which the greatest collections of poetry in English will be published in their original form. All texts have been completely reset and some minor changes made to punctuation.
One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge', 'Tintern Abbey', 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Lucy Gray', and 'Michael'.
Together these poems demonstrate not only Wordsworth's astonishing range and power, but the sustained and coherent vision that informed his work.
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