Wordsworth: A Life

by Juliet Barker

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William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed Republican. His poetry was as revolutionary as his politics, challenging convention in form, style and subject and earning him the universal derision and contempt of critics. Only the unfailing encouragement of a tightly knit group of supporters, his family and, above all, Coleridge, kept him true to his poetic vocation. In...Read more
  • ISBN10 0060787368
  • ISBN13 9780060787363
  • Publish Date 12 December 2006 (first published 16 October 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 548
  • Language English