In William Wordsworth, John Williams provides a detailed account of Wordsworth's evolution as a poet. This includes his earliest known writing while a pupil at Hawkshead Grammar School, and his later poetry, often virtually ignored by critics. Wordsworth's ambivalent attitude towards seeking out a public readership beyond his immediate circle of friends and admirers is a central concern of the book. This involves an assessment of the poet's shifting sense of his political allegiances alongside the pressures of personal relationships and circumstances.

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University of Greenwich, UK

John Williams

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Book Title: William Wordsworth
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: John Williams
Series Title: Literary Lives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24491-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-57418-8Published: 08 March 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24491-1Published: 08 March 1996
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 208
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics

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