William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life is a new biography of the great father of British Romanticism. It is new in several ways, most notably in the way it approaches the life of the poet. Paying its proper respect to the classic lives of Wordsworth by Mary Moorman and Stephen Gill, it attempts to tell t...

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1. Verfasser:	Mahoney, John L. 1928- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Fordham Univ. Press 1997
Schlagworte:	Wordsworth, William <1770-1850> Wordsworth, William > 1770-1850 Geschichte 1800-1900 Poètes anglais - 19e siècle - Biographies Poets, English > 19th century > Biography Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life is a new biography of the great father of British Romanticism. It is new in several ways, most notably in the way it approaches the life of the poet. Paying its proper respect to the classic lives of Wordsworth by Mary Moorman and Stephen Gill, it attempts to tell the story of the life through a more rigorous reading of key and representative works by the poet and through a careful blending of his life and poetry. Wordsworth offers the story of the literariness of the poet's life - childhood and adolescence in the Lake District, education at Cambridge, love and political radicalism in France, the long period of residence in Grasmere and Rydal, celebrity, and national and international recognition. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's career as it moves away from familiar theories of a Golden Decade of creativity and a period of long decline The book also works closely and rigorously with Wordworth's poetry as a method of dramatizing the essentially poetic character of the poet's life
Beschreibung:	XXVIII, 301 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0823217159 0823217167