By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth's early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet's most creative period of life and writing.

• Features new research into Wordsworth's financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially
• Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem 'The Recluse'
• Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge

About the Author

JOHN WORTHEN is Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, UK. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010), Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician (2007), D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (2005), The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons and the Wordsworths in 1802 (2001), and D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885 1912 (1991).

Reviews

"John Worthen's engaging new biography of Wordsworth begins by quoting the poet's recollection of himself at around the age of 10, surveying tall trees, black chasms, and dizzy crags: 'I loved to stand and & read j Their looks forbidding', he says, 'read & disobey' (p. 3). . . Worthen's book is a revealing account of the consequences of that daring." (The Review of English Studies, 15 October 2014)

Book Information
ISBN 9780470655443
Author John Worthen
Format Hardback
Page Count 504
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 794g
Dimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 28mm