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Wordsworth : a life / Juliet Barker

By:

Barker, Juliet

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Ecco , 2000Description: 548 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

978-0-06-078731-8

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 WOR

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027741

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.

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