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- Gill, Stephen
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198817118
ISBN-13
9780198817116
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038272661
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
William Wordsworth : Alife
Number of Pages
688 Pages, 640 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Poetry, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.4 in
Item Weight
34.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
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LCCN
2020-931259
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"One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "[William Wordsworth: A Life] is judicious, fair-minded, panoptic." -- Brad Leithauser, The Wall Street Journal "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books "A magnificent second edition, which displays the same qualities of quiet authority, tact and resistance to speculation, and thus merits consideration as a work in its own right." -- Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement "Reading Gill's work is a reminder of the pleasures and advantages of whole life biography." -- Kathryn Hughes, New York Review of Books "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul." -- Steve Craggs, Northern Echo "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul." -- Steve Craggs, Northern Echo "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "[William Wordsworth: A Life] is judicious, fair-minded, panoptic." -- Brad Leithauser, The Wall Street Journal "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul." -- Steve Craggs, Northern Echo "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "Those who do not own the first edition should acquire this one...Essential." -- T. Ware, Queen's University at Kingston, CHOICE"[William Wordsworth: A Life] is judicious, fair-minded, panoptic." -- Brad Leithauser, The Wall Street Journal"One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian"The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books"A magnificent second edition, which displays the same qualities of quiet authority, tact and resistance to speculation, and thus merits consideration as a work in its own right." -- Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement"Reading Gill's work is a reminder of the pleasures and advantages of whole life biography." -- Kathryn Hughes, New York Review of Books"Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust"This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul." -- Steve Craggs, Northern Echo"Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post"Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times"An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, Impressive new Clarendon biography ...William Wordsworth: A Life is every inch the new definitive work. Gill has taken full account of Wordsworth studies in the past 30 years, blended the new materials with the old, and come out with a book that is scholarly, readable, likely to last., "Those who do not own the first edition should acquire this one...Essential." -- T. Ware, Queen's University at Kingston, CHOICE "[William Wordsworth: A Life] is judicious, fair-minded, panoptic." -- Brad Leithauser, The Wall Street Journal "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books "A magnificent second edition, which displays the same qualities of quiet authority, tact and resistance to speculation, and thus merits consideration as a work in its own right." -- Pamela Clemit, Times Literary Supplement "Reading Gill's work is a reminder of the pleasures and advantages of whole life biography." -- Kathryn Hughes, New York Review of Books "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul." -- Steve Craggs, Northern Echo "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "[William Wordsworth: A Life] is judicious, fair-minded, panoptic." -- Brad Leithauser, The Wall Street Journal "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "The richly revised second edition of Gill's biography (the first appeared in 1990), refuses the usual trajectory and instead celebrates 'a multifaceted, highly creative life of eighty years'." -- Thomas Keymer, London Review of Books "Reading Gill's work is a reminder of the pleasures and advantages of whole life biography." -- Kathryn Hughes, New York Review of Books "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "This biography not only presents Wordsworth in the round, but also grants us a peep into his very soul." -- Steve Craggs, Northern Echo "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life, "One of the many enjoyments of Stephen Gill's William Wordsworth: A Life is the quiet pride it communicates in a job well done. Wordsworth emerges from this comprehensive and absorbing study as a man whose sense of purpose and duty steadily grew from youth to old age." -- Freya Johnston, The Guardian "Gill gives us the Wordsworth who bore life's tribulations as a philosopher, the Wordsworth renowned as a poet, but also the deeply human portrait of Wordsworth the man." -- Chris Townsend, The Wordsworth Trust "Stephen Gill's masterly and immensely readable "William Wordsworth: A Life"." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Gill is the leading authority on the poet and writes in great detail about his life and work; an essential book for all students." -- Robert Tanitch, The Mature Times "An essential companion to students of Wordsworth with much to offer the general reader." -- Will Smith, Cumbria Life
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
821.7
Table Of Content
Part I: BEGININGS1: 1770-17872: 1787-17923: 1793-17954: 1795-17975: 1797-17986: 1798-1799Part II: MIDDLE YEARS7: 1800-18028: 1803-18059: 1806-181010: 1810-181511: 1816-1820Part III: LATER YEARS12: 1820-182213: 1822-183214: 1833-183915: 1840-1850, Part I: BEGININGS1. 1770-17872. 1787-17923. 1793-17954. 1795-17975. 1797-17986. 1798-1799Part II: MIDDLE YEARS7. 1800-18028. 1803-18059. 1806-181010. 1810-181511. 1816-1820Part III: LATER YEARS12. 1820-182213. 1822-183214. 1833-183915. 1840-1850
Synopsis
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., 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 Franceto 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 andhis 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 biographyremains, 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., A second edition of Stephen Gill's acclaimed biography William Wordsworth: A Life. Completely revised and updated, this edition explores the whole of Wordsworth's life including his career, his personal relationships, and the historical circumstances that affected his poetry., William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is recognised as one of the greatest poets in the English language and a key figure in the movement that altered the culture and politics of the Western world, generally called Romanticism. In his writings Wordsworth not only registered turbulent times from the French Revolution to near revolution in 1840s Victorian Britain, but also established a pattern of self-analysis that permanently altered the nature of autobiography and ofways of thinking about identity and the self. Generations of readers have testified to the power of his poetry both to inspire and to console.
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PR5881.G55 2020
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