A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ‘Radical Wordsworth
deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his
work, life and impact’ Financial Times ‘Richly repays reading
… It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world
so much’ Sunday Times A dazzling new biography of Wordsworth’s
radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark
the 250th anniversary of his birth. William Wordsworth wrote the
first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that
places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called
‘a sort of national property’. He changed forever the way we
think about childhood, about the sense of the self, about our
connection to the natural environment, and about the purpose of
poetry. He was born among the mountains of the English Lake
District. He walked into the French Revolution, had a love affair
and an illegitimate child, before witnessing horrific violence in
Paris. His friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge was at the core
of the Romantic movement. As he retreated from radical politics and
into an imaginative world within, his influence would endure as he
shaped the ideas of thinkers, writers and activists throughout the
nineteenth century in both Britain and the United States. This
wonderful book opens what Wordsworth called ‘the hiding places of
my power’. W. H. Auden once wrote that ‘Poetry makes nothing
happen’. He was wrong. Wordsworth’s poetry changed the world.
Award-winning biographer and critic Jonathan Bate tells the story
of how it happened.
General
Imprint: |
William Collins Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2021 |
Authors: |
Jonathan Bate
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 39mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
608 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-816745-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-00-816745-1 |
Barcode: |
9780008167455 |
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