This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813.

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• Looks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth's great poetry.
  
• Explains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic 'The Recluse' to his work as a whole.
  
• Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks.
  
• Contains the first annotated text of 'The White Doe of Rylstone'.

About the Author
Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature. His numerous publications include A Companion to Romanticism (1998), Romanticism: An Anthology with CD-ROM, (Second Edition, 1998), Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995), Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (1997), an edition of William Wordsworth's The Five-Book Prelude (1997) and of William Hazlitt's The Plain-Speaker: Key Essays (1998), all available from Blackwell. He is also the editor of a nine volume edition of The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (1998).

Reviews
"A major achievement. A marvellous combination of profound scholarship and equally profound speculative insight." Professor Stephen Gill, Oxford University

"Wordsworth: An Inner Life shows that it is still possible to say new things about a life and a literary oeuvre which might seem, in outline, all too familiar." Times Literary Supplement

"This is traditional scholarship at its best, attentive to detail and immersed in a welter of poetic sources, which will no doubt be studied and absorbed by bright graduate students and Wordsworth experts." Times Higher Education Supplement

"In his reconstruction of Wordsworth's "inner life", Wu offers a compelling blend of biography and literary criticism." Religious Studies Review

Book Information
ISBN 9780631206385
Author Duncan Wu
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 160mm * 35mm