Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
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- Synopsis
- On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth&’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth&’s birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow Romantics changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection to the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. But his was also a revolutionary life in the old sense of the word, insofar as his art was of memory, the return of the past, the circling back to childhood and youth. This beautifully written biography is purposefully fragmentary, momentary, and selective, opening up what Wordsworth called "the hiding-places of my power."
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300228915
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780300169645
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/19/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Yale University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Romance, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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