Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Letters o the Wordsorth Family
Author: The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth
Author: William WordsworthPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801475337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth collects 31 letters that William Wordsworth exchanged with his wife, Mary, during the early years of their marriage. These letters--fifteen from William to Mary and sixteen from her to him--were written during William's absences from home in 1810 and 1812 and offer an entirely new way of looking at the poet and his married life. Reproduced here with an informative introduction and headnotes by Beth Darlington that set each missive in biographical context, the letters cover a wide range of topics: village life, Regency politics, poetry and painting, London gossip, rural manners, their five children, domestic activities, and family anecdotes. Yet along with these everyday incidents and practical concerns, there are tender passages in which the Wordsworths ardently declare their love for each other and reveal a profound happiness in their marriage.The William Wordsworth who emerges from this correspondence is a figure more relaxed, more accessible, and indeed more human that he has been pictured; May emerges as a woman of keen intelligence, energy, and imagination. Revealing how thoroughly Wordsworth shared his inner and passional life with Mary, this volume puts to rest the notion that theirs was a marriage of convenience.
Letters of the Wordsworth Family
Author: Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855: 1787-1811
Author: William WordsworthLetters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Letters of William Wordsworth
Author: William WordsworthPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198185291
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The letters of William Wordsworth provide a unique, vivid record of his personality and priorities which belies the legend of the romantic dreamer obsessed with his own genius. This selection presents 162 complete letters in chronological order so that they can be read as a continuous narrative through Wordsworth's life.
Letter Writing Among Poets
Author: Jonathan EllisPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748681337
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Examines letter writing among poets in the last 200 years. Poets discussed include Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth century and Eliot, Yeats, Bishop and Larkin in the twentieth century. Divided into three sections--Contexts and Issues, Romantic and Victorian Letter Writing and Twentieth-century Letter Writing--the volume demonstrates that real letters still have an allure.
Radical Wordsworth
Author: Jonathan BatePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
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."
Words in Air
Author: Elizabeth BishopPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374722870
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.
The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The early years, 1787-1805, revised by Chester L. Shaver
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages :
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