The Life of William Wordsworth – A Critical Biography Worthen Hardback

The Life of William Wordsworth\n\nA Critical Biography\n\n\""This is an original and richly informed life of the great poet, both sympathetic and sceptical. John Worthen has brought a fresh pair of eyes to many aspects of Wordsworth's biography, and the result is a vivid and persuasive account of a remarkable personality.\""\n \u2014Seamus Perry, University of Oxford\n\nJohn Worthen (Author)\n\n9780470655443, Wiley\n\nHardback, published 28 March 2014\n\n504 pages\n23.9 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.794 kg\n\n\u201CJohn Worthen\u2019s engaging new biography of Wordsworth begins by quoting the poet\u2019s recollection of himself at around the age of 10, surveying tall trees, black chasms, and dizzy crags: \u2018I loved to stand and & read j Their looks forbidding\u2019, he says, \u2018read & disobey\u2019 (p. 3). . . Worthen\u2019s book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring.\u201D  (The Review of English Studies, 15 October 2014)\n\nBy examining the family and financ]