Radical Wordsworth : the poet who changed the world /
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age. Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionar...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prelude: The epoch
- Part One:. 1770-1806: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. A voice that flowed along my dreams ; Fostered ; There was a boy ; Walking into revolution ; Two revolutionary women ; But to be young was very Heaven ; Stepping westward ; A new spirit in poetry ; The banks of the Wye ; The experiment ; Lucy in the Harz with Dorothy ; By W. Wordsworth ; Home at Grasmere ; The child is father of the man
- Excursion: From new school to Lake School
- Part Two: 1807-1850: Wordworth's healing power. Surprised by grief ; This will never do ; Among the Cockneys ; The lost leader ; A medicine for my state of mind
- Retrospect. A sort of national property ; Love of nature leading to love of mankind
- Chronology.