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020			_a978-0-06-078731-8
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100	1		_aBarker, Juliet
245	1	0	_aWordsworth _b: a life _c/ Juliet Barker
260			_aNew York _b: Ecco _c, 2000
300			_a548 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm
520			_aFollowing 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.
600	1	4	_aWordsworth, William _d, 1770-1850.
650			_aPoets, English _y-19th century _v--Biography
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