The Hidden WordsworthW. 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 |
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