Home at Grasmere

Home at Grasmere
Author: Dorothy Wordsworth
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1978
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0140431365

The sister of the poet records the daily account of their life which becomes also a reference to the poems of Wordsworth and relates these poems to specific entries.

The Recluse

The Recluse
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1888
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

Home at Grasmere

Home at Grasmere
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1977
Genre: English poetry
ISBN: 9780801410550

The Grasmere Journals

The Grasmere Journals
Author: Dorothy Wordsworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1993
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780192831309

Dorothy Wordsworth's The Grasmere Journals, begun in May 1800 while at Dove Cottage, and continued for nearly three years until January 1803, is perhaps the best-loved of all journals. Noting the walks and the weather, the friends, country neighbors and beggars on the roads, William Wordsworth's marriage, the composition of poetry, and their concern for Coleridge, her words bring those first years to vivid and intimate life. This edition has been prepared directly from the manuscripts with undeciphered words clarified, first thoughts, later insertions and deletions indicated, and Dorothy's hasty punctuation largely restored. It also offers rich explanatory notes, containing much new detail on friends and family, the scarcely-known people of the Grasmere valley, the books that were read, and the connections with William Wordsworth's poetry.

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
Author: Dorothy Wordsworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2008-07-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199536872

These two journals provide a unique picture of daily life with Wordsworth, his friendship with Coleridge, and the composition of his poems. They also offer wonderfully vivid descriptions of the landscape and people of Grasmere and Alfoxden in Somerset, which inspired Wordsworth and have enchanted generations of readers. This edition includes full explanatory notes on the people and places Dorothy writes about.

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Author: Stephen Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0192551280

In this second edition of William Wordsworth: A Life, Stephen Gill draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. The various phases of Wordsworth's life are explored with a not uncritical sympathy; the narrative brings out the courage he and his wife and family were called upon to show as they crafted the life they wanted to lead. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth the writer, the personal relationships that nourished his creativity are fully treated, as are the historical circumstances that affected the production of his poetry. Wordsworth, it is widely believed, valued poetic spontaneity. He did, but he also took pains over every detail of the process of publication. The foundation of this second edition of the biography remains, as it was of the first, a conviction that Wordsworth's poetry, which has given pleasure and comfort to generations of readers in the past, will continue to do so in the years to come.

The Excursion - Being a Portion of 'The Recluse', a Poem

The Excursion - Being a Portion of 'The Recluse', a Poem
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1528789431

First published in 1814, “The Excursion” is the second and only completed part of Wordsworth's three-part work “The Recluse”. It is a long poem that revolves around three central figures: the Solitary, who has lived through the horrors and hopes of the French Revolution; the Pastor, to whom a third of the poem is dedicated; and the Wanderer. “The Excursion” enjoyed popularity in the nineteenth century and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of Wordsworth's fantastic work. Included in this edition is an introductory excerpt from “Reminiscences” (1881) by Thomas Carlyle. William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet famous for helping to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of “Lyrical Ballads” (1798), which he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His best known work is perhaps “The Prelude”, a semi-autobiographical poem from his early years which was changed and expanded many times throughout his life. He was poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850. Other notable works by this author include: “The Tables Turned”, “The Thorn”, and “Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”.

Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals)

Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals)
Author: David Simpson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317620321

Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth’s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth’s poetry, in Simpson’s phrase, a ‘poetry of displacement’.