William Wordsworth (The ^AOxford Authors) - Softcover

Wordsworth, William

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9780192813336: William Wordsworth (The ^AOxford Authors)

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ISBN 10: 0192813331 ISBN 13: 9780192813336

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1984

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This collection presents Wordsworth's poems in their earliest completed form (before the poet's alterations) and in order of composition. A selection of Wordsworth's critical writing complements a generous selection of poetry, including the longer narratives ("The Ruined Castle," "Home at Grasmere," and "Peter Bell"), his autobiographical masterpiece, "The Prelude," and all his finest lyrics.

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Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin since 1976, he teaches regularly at Harvard University.

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Gill, tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford, has availed himself of the mass of recent Wordsworth scholarship, plus the large cache of the poet's family papers discovered in 1977, in producing this solid, intelligent and highly readable biography, which, while not neglecting Wordsworth as solitary visionary, brings out his determination to be an intellectual power in the land. Concentrating on Wordsworth the writer, Gill intersperses sensitive commentary on his poetic oeuvre, giving major attention to The Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude , with a running account of his family life, friendships and travels. His was a life containing much hardship heroically endured. Wordsworth's friendship with Coleridge, which helped inspire his early poetic blaze, gradually went sour; his poetry never earned him a livelihood and for 20 years was widely scorned; and the deaths of some of his closest friends and three of his children were stunning blows. Gill sends us back to the poetry with renewed interest, while enlarging our respect for the poet's rugged commitment to his muse. Illustrations.
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