Wordsworth : a life
Barker, Juliet
Wordsworth : a life / Juliet Barker - New York : Ecco , 2000 - 548 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Following Wordsworth over the course of his eight decades (1770-1850), Barker, unlike other biographers, gives equal attention to his early poetic career and radicalism, and to his "middle-aged Toryism" and later domestic years. Barker puts her subject in the context of his family: his early orphaning; his deep bond with his equally sensitive sister, Dorothy; and the tragic early deaths of his children. She is far more forgiving of Wordsworth's abandonment of his early ideology, sympathizing with his practical need as a family man to take a government job enforcing the press-restricting Stamp Act until he received a civil pension-and ultimately the laureateship.
978-0-06-078731-8
Wordsworth, William , 1770-1850.
Poets, English---19th century----Biography
92 WOR
Wordsworth : a life / Juliet Barker - New York : Ecco , 2000 - 548 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Following Wordsworth over the course of his eight decades (1770-1850), Barker, unlike other biographers, gives equal attention to his early poetic career and radicalism, and to his "middle-aged Toryism" and later domestic years. Barker puts her subject in the context of his family: his early orphaning; his deep bond with his equally sensitive sister, Dorothy; and the tragic early deaths of his children. She is far more forgiving of Wordsworth's abandonment of his early ideology, sympathizing with his practical need as a family man to take a government job enforcing the press-restricting Stamp Act until he received a civil pension-and ultimately the laureateship.
978-0-06-078731-8
Wordsworth, William , 1770-1850.
Poets, English---19th century----Biography
92 WOR
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