The hidden Wordsworth : poet, lover, rebel, spy / Kenneth R. Johnston
1998. New York : W.W. Norton. Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper. Some foxing to edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #443143
ISBN: 0393046230
Physical description: xxii, 965 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents: Part I: The child is father -- The ministries of fear and beauty -- The vale of Esthwaite -- "While we were schoolboys" -- "Verses from the impulse of my own mind" -- Stranger, lounger, lover -- Young love-liking -- Weighing the man in the balance -- Something of a Republic -- Golden hours -- Golden days and giddy prospects -- Part II: Of the man -- The mighty city -- The might mind -- Revolution and romance -- Castaway -- A return to France? -- A return to France: the evidence of speculation -- Legacy hunting -- Philanthropy or treason? -- Of cabbages and radicals -- An independent intellect -- The spy and the mariner -- The mariner and the recluse -- Triumphs of failure -- Wye wandering -- "Mr. Wordsworth" -- Writing in self-defense -- Destination unknown -- Part III: What is a poet? -- "We have learnt to know its value" -- Home at Grasmere -- A. k. a. Lyrical ballads -- Selling the book, creating the poet -- Peace, marriage, inheritance -- Disciples and partners -- The end of The prelude -- Presenting the poet. Subjects: Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 Childhood and youth. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834. Poets, English 19th century ; Biography. Romanticism Great Britain History 19th century.
Price: €18.95