The Hidden Wordsworth

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W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 - 738 sider
In this fascinating account, Kenneth R. Johnston portrays a Wordsworth different in crucial ways from the one the poet intended us to know. Taking advantage of unprecedented access to archives, family papers, and letters, he reveals the poet's complex relationship with his sister Dorothy; the full story of the affair with his French mistress, Annette Vallon; and his surprisingly close connections to both radical reformers and the political establishment of his day, including members of the newly formed British Secret Service in England and Germany. The Hidden Wordsworth also explores the poet's intense and often destructive relations with a cluster of young writers, leading up to his friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This brilliantly insightful biography breaks through the carefully crafted but frequently misleading accounts of his youth Wordsworth created in his conservative later years. The Hidden Wordsworth reveals the radical young poet whose powerful intellect revolutionized English poetry. Winner of the 1998 Jean Baracelli Prize from the American Conference on Romanticism; shortlisted for the James Tait Black biography prize (UK); a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "Full of fresh information, fresh insights, and fresh intelligent critical readings of the poetry."--Stephen M. Parrish, editor, The Cornell Wordsworth
 

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Images of Wordsworth
1
The Ministries of Fear and Beauty
11
The Vale of Esthwaite
30
While we were schoolboys
50
Verses from the impulse of my own mind
69
Stranger Lounger Lover
84
Young LoveLiking
103
Weighing the Man in the Balance
117
The Mariner and the Recluse
399
Triumphs of Failure
411
Wye Wandering
426
Mr Wordsworth?
442
Writing in SelfDefence
455
Destination Unknown
471
We have learnt to know its value
485
Home at Grasmere
503

Something of a Republic
132
Golden Hours
140
Golden Days and Giddy Prospects
151
The Mighty City
175
The Mighty Mind
194
Revolution and Romance
209
Castaway
239
A Return to France?
262
A Return to France
276
Legacy Hunting
294
Philanthropy or Treason?
312
Of Cabbages and Radicals
341
An Independent Intellect
359
The Spy and the Mariner
375
Aka Lyrical Ballads
520
Selling the Book Creating the Poet
541
Peace Marriage Inheritance
553
Disciples and Partners
567
The End of The Prelude
580
Presenting the Poet
588
Hiding the Man or Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity
598
Genealogical Chart Showing Intermarriages between Robinson Wordsworth Cookson Crackanthorpe and Monkhouse Families
608
Abbreviations
611
Notes
614
Bibliography
666
Index
675
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Kenneth R. Johnston, chair of the English department at Indiana University, lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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