TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Juliet R.V.
TI  - Wordsworth: a life 
SN  - 0060787317
AV  - PR5881 .B27 2005
U1  - 821/.7 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco
KW  - Wordsworth, William,
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; The child is father of the man pre; 1770-83 --; A poor, devoted crew; 1784-7 --; Squandered abroad; 1787-90 --; A vital interest; 1799-92 --; A patriot of the world; 1793-4 --; Benighted heart and mind; 1794-6 --; A sett of violent democrats; 1796-8 --; The giant Wordsworth; 1798-9 --; The concern; 1799-1800 --; Home at Grasmere; 1800-1802 --; The set is broken; 1802-5 --; Acquiring the quiet mind; 1805-6 --; The convention of cintra; 1807-9 --; The blessedest of men! ; 1809-11 --; Suffer the little children; 1811-12 --; The excursion; 1813-14 --; Increasing influence; 1814-16 --; Bombastes Furioso; 1817-20 --; A tour of the continent; 1820-22 --; Idle Mount; 1823-6 --; Shades of the prison-house; 1826-9 --; Furiously alarmist; 1829-33 --; Falling leaves; 1833-6 --; Coming home; 1836-9 --; Real greatness; 1893-42 --; Poet Laureate; 1842-5 --; Fixed and irremovable grief; 1845-7 --; Bowed to the dust; 1847-50 --; Epilogue; 1847-50
N2  - Orphaned and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, Wordsworth became the archetypal teenage rebel. He went 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 contempt of critics. Only the encouragement of a group of supporters, above all Coleridge, kept him true to his poetic vocation. In the half-century that followed, his reputation was transformed. His advocacy of imagination and feeling touched a chord in an increasingly industrial, mechanistic age, and his influence was profoundly felt in every sphere of life. In the last decade of his life, his home became a place of pilgrimage for people who came to pay their respects to his genius. His legacy, as a poet and as the spiritual founder of the conservation movement, remains with us today.--From publisher description
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