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
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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
关于作者
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 18851912 (1991).
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