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William Shakespeare : a compact documentary life
- By contrast, this intelligent and authoritative biography demonstrates that once the poet had returned to the Lake District, determined to live dedicated to poetry at whatever cost, his life took on a unity and purpose it had previously lacked.
Blake, William (1757–1827), engraver, artist, and poet ...
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- Based on an intimate knowledge of the poet's manuscripts, on a fresh assessment of contemporary records, and a careful analysis of a wealth of new research, this vividly written volume presents the first serious biography of Wordsworth to appear in over twenty-five years.
| This biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth. | |
| By contrast, this intelligent and authoritative biography demonstrates that once the poet had returned to the Lake District, determined to live dedicated to poetry at whatever cost, his life took on a unity and purpose it had previously lacked. | |
| Andrew R. Murphy offers the first major biography of Penn in more than forty years, and the first to make full use of Penn's private papers. |
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth | Oxford Academic
- Based on an intimate knowledge of the poet's manuscripts, on a fresh assessment of contemporary records, and a careful analysis of a wealth of new research, this vividly written volume presents the first serious biography of Wordsworth to appear in over twenty-five years.
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Why it’s so hard to write a William Wordsworth biography
“A divine morning–At Breakfast William wrote part of an ode—Mr Olliff sent the Dung & William went to work in the garden.” This entry in Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal for 1802 is characteristically straightforward, but for the biographer how to deal with it is anything but.
After years of unsettled wandering William and Dorothy Wordsworth had returned to the Lake District where they were born and were now at the beginning of the second year of their life together on the edge of Grasmere village. It was to be an experiment in holistic living. Brother and sister had little money, but they were determined to create a home together, to decorate and furnish their rented cottage, to become as self-sufficient as possible domestically and as productive as conditions in the garden would allow. Wordsworth had come to believe that he had a calling to be a poet, but the production of poetry had to be part of livi
Why it’s so hard to write a William Wordsworth biography
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