William Wordsworth
A second edition of Stephen Gill's acclaimed biography William Wordsworth: A Life. Completely revised and updated, this edition explores the whole of Wordsworth's life including his career, his personal relationships, and the historical circumstances that affected his poetry.
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is recognised as one of the greatest poets in the English language and a key figure in the movement that altered the culture and politics of the Western world, generally called Romanticism. In his writings Wordsworth not only registered turbulent times from the French Revolution to near revolution in 1840s Victorian Britain, but also established a pattern of self-analysis that permanently altered the nature of autobiography and of ways of thinking about identity and the self. Generations of readers have testified to the power of his poetry both to inspire and to console.
