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A Life in Letters

By William Wordsworth

A Life in Letters

By William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth is usually remembered as the quintessential Victorian Poet Laureate: a dull worthy establishment figure with impeccable middle class Tory Anglican credentials whose moralistic poetry has been required reading for generations of yawning school children. Yet there is so much more to Wordsworth than Daffodils and The Prelude.
This selection of letters and autobiographical fragments introduces us to the real Wordsworth: the rebellious schoolboy who vandalised his family portraits became a supporter of the French Revolution and fathered an illegitimate daughter in France; the radical poet whose flouting of the conventions of the day attracted the ridicule of the reviewers and forced him to endure thirty years of rejection obscurity and financial hardship before achieving belated critical and popular success; the devoted brother husband and father who could still write passionate love letters to his wife after ten years of marriage and the birth of five children; and finally the revered patriarch whose poetry formed the hearts and minds of a generation whose opinions were sought by writers politicians churchmen and educationalists throughout the English speaking world but who thought nothing of vaulting walls skating on the Lakes or climbing Helvellyn even in his seventies.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2007-03-29
Publication Date:
2007-03-29
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141442131
ISBN13:
9780141442136
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
457 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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