The Hidden Wordsworth
Author: Kenneth R. Johnston
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780393321593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a Wordsworth we have never quite seen before."--Hermione Lee, The New York Times
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Author: Kenneth R. Johnston
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780393321593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a Wordsworth we have never quite seen before."--Hermione Lee, The New York Times
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Department of English at the University of Southern California, located in Los Angeles, California, features a book review written by Marcy L. Tanter of the book authored by Kenneth Johnston entitled "The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy," (ISBN 0-393-04623-0) published by Norton in 1998. Tanter comments on Johnston's book, which is a biography on the early years in the life of the English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Eberle-Sinatra offers the full text of the book review written by Bruce E. Graver of Kenneth R. Johnston's book entitled "The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy," (ISBN: 0-393-04623-0) published by Norton and Co. in 1998. The book review was originally published in the February 1999 issue of "Romanticism on the Net." The biography about the English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) covers a broad scope on Wordsworth's finances, sexuality, and political involvements.
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1407144561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. Then one day she discovers a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been completely forgotten for years and years. Can Mary bring the garden back to life - and solve its mystery?
Author: Polly Atkin
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1915089654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to focus on Dorothy Wordsworth’s later life and work and the impact of her disability – allowing her to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story. Dorothy Wordsworth is well known as the author of the Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals (1798–1803) and as the sister of the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. She is widely praised for her nature writing and is often remembered as a woman of great physical vitality. Less well known, however, is that Dorothy became seriously ill in 1829 and was mostly housebound for the last twenty years of her life. Her personal letters and unpublished journals from this time paint a portrait of a compassionate and creative woman who made her sickroom into a garden for herself and her pet robin and who finally grew to call herself a poet. They also reveal how vital Dorothy was to her brother’s success, and the closeness they shared as siblings. By re-examining her life through the perspective of her illness, this biography allows Dorothy Wordsworth to step out from her brother’s shadow and back into her own life story.
Author: Anahid Nersessian
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 022670131X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Romantic period in literature coincided with two of the most significant transformations in modern history: the Industrial Revolution and, with it, the inflection point of the Anthropocene. Literary critics have shown that much of Romantic poetry expresses an uncanny insight into both of these transformations, including the human and ecological costs of what we now call a carbon-based economy. But was art really capable of making sense of the emerging crisis-or of changing the future? In a superbly nuanced work of literary criticism, Anahid Nersessian shows that poets began to disqualify themselves from explaining the train of consequences that industry set in motion. Their form of knowledge-if knowledge it be-was of an order different from science or economics, and could not bear the burden of accounting for environmental calamity. Romanticism, Nersessian argues, is of the Anthropocene but not about it, and she cautions against investing its poetry with a straightforwardly testimonial power. In doing so, she models an approach to criticism that reads within what Charles Olson calls "the shapeful," emphasizing the role of rhetorical figures in fashioning the posture a poem takes on a historical question. While focusing on the Romantics, Nersessian also ranges back to the seventeenth century (e.g., the poetry of Andrew Marvell) and forward to examples of contemporary poetry and conceptual art (e.g., Derek Jarman's poetry, and installations by Agnes Denes and Helen Mirra). Within literary studies, this is a widely anticipated book by one of the most brilliant critics of her generation"--
Author: Jonathan Bate
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0300228910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow Romantics changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection to the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. But his was also a revolutionary life in the old sense of the word, insofar as his art was of memory, the return of the past, the circling back to childhood and youth. This beautifully written biography is purposefully fragmentary, momentary, and selective, opening up what Wordsworth called "the hiding-places of my power."
Author: Jamison Kantor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1009123017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis rich cultural history shows how honor, as much as freedom, inspired poets, novelists, and abolitionists of the nineteenth century.
Author: Andrew Wordsworth
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781843681946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by his collateral descendant, the sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography weaves life and poetry together to create an utterly revelatory account of the man who was arguably the greatest Romantic poet of them all. Radical in his youth, and father to a love-child in revolutiontorn France, Wordsworth later retreated into reaction and nationalism. His early writings transformed English poetry, but the greatest achievement was his epic The Prelude, which he squirreled away and which was not published until after his death. After 1805 he outwardly produced little that was of note, and his project with Coleridge, The Recluse, remained a literary pipe-dream, or perhaps a smoke-screen. He himself became something of a recluse, increasingly isolated in his bucolic corner of the Lake District, surrounded only by his close family circle (the harem, as Coleridge called it): his sister Dorothy, and later his wife Mary and his daughters. Wordsworth's complex and aloof personality has always been an enigma, but by combining close readings of the poems with a detailed examination of his life, Andrew Wordsworth is able to unlock the secrets of one of the most fascinating and influential writers in English. As Dr David Whitley notes, Well-Kept Secrets intersperses the narrative exploring Wordsworth's life with a wealth of verse. This structure clearly shows how Wordsworth's art was intimately linked to his existence and how it was a means - more or less conscious - to come to terms with the world, himself and the many contradictions running like chasms across his personality. It also enables Andrew Wordsworth to shed some new light on the interpretation of the poetry, to better understand the poet as a man.
Author: Peter Dale
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-22
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781851498956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK- The first book to explore both Wordsworth's gardens and the poet's literary use of flowers - Includes rare botanical prints reproduced for the first time in several decades - Focuses on Wordsworth's gardens in the English Lake District and Leicestershire - Draws extensively on hitherto unpublished manuscripts and artworks - Reproduces illustrations from early editions of Wordsworth A book that debunks the popular myth that William Wordsworth was, first and foremost, a poet of daffodils, Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise provides a vivid account of Wordsworth as a gardening poet who not only wrote about gardens and flowers but also designed - and physically worked in - his gardens. Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise is a book of two halves. The first section focuses on the gardens that Wordsworth made at Grasmere and Rydal in the English Lake District, and also in Leicestershire, at Coleorton. The gardens are explored via his poetry and prose and the journals of his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth. In the second half of the book, the reader learns more of Wordsworth's use of flowers in his poetry, exploring the vital importance of British flowers and other 'unassuming things' to his work, as well as their wider cultural, religious and political meaning. Throughout, the engaging, accessible text is woven around illustrations that bring Wordsworth's gardens and flowers to life, including rare botanical prints, many reproduced here for the first time in several decades. Contents: Part One: The Gardens and their Maker Part Two: Flowers and the Poetry A Note on the Botanical Plates List of Illustrations Acknowledgements