Wordsworth
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- Author: F. W. H. Myers
- Date Published: November 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108034487
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The publication in 1798 of Lyrical Ballads, written by William Wordsworth (1770–1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is considered to have launched the Romantic movement. Published in 1881 in the first series of 'English Men of Letters', this biography of Wordsworth by classical scholar and psychical researcher F. W. H. Myers (1843–1901) shows how Wordsworth's profound imagination and thought characterised and shaped his literary era. He discusses the influence of Wordsworth's upbringing and love for the natural world on works such as The Excursion, and The Prelude, which are said to have marked the transition from neoclassicism to Romanticism. Showing Wordsworth to be widely respected as 'so much besides a poet', Myers describes the circumstances in which Wordsworth accepted the Laureateship in 1843, an apparent surrender to 'the establishment' which poets such as Robert Browning regarded as a betrayal of his own earlier radical idealism.
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- Date Published: November 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108034487
- length: 198 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Birth and education - Cambridge
2. Residence in London and in France
3. Miss Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads - settlement at Grasmere
4. The English lakes
5. Marriage - society - highland tour
6. Sir George Beaumont - death of John Wordsworth
7. Happy Warrior and patriotic poems
8. Children - life at Rydal Mount - The Excursion
9. Poetic diction - Laodamia - Evening Ode
10. Natural religion
11. Italian tour - Ecclesiastical Sonnets - political views - laureateship
12. Letters on the Kendal and Windermere Railway - conclusion.
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