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1	William Wordsworth: A Life more books like this by Professor Stephen Gill add to wishlist Based on intimate knowledge of the poet's manuscripts, on a fresh look at contemporary records, and on a study of the mass of material that has appeared since the last serious biography, a quarter-century ago, this new account of Wordsworth focuses on what was most important to him - his life as a writer. The common notion is that the older ... see all copies from $2.06! new only from $46.65! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Wordsworth: A Life more books like this by Juliet Barker add to wishlist William Wordsworth's early life reads like a novel. Orphaned at a young age and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, he became the archetypal teenage rebel. Refusing to enter the Church, he went instead to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed Republican. His poetry was as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Grave Tattoo more books like this by Val McDermid add to wishlist In a novel reminiscent of "The Dante Club" and "The Historian," suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the 18th century and the mutiny on the HMS "Bounty." Martin's Press. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	William Wordsworth: Selected Poems more books like this by William Wordsworth add to wishlist One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selection from the most creative phase of his life, including extracts from his masterpiece, The Prelude, and the best-loved of his shorter poems such as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life more books like this by Frances Wilson add to wishlist In this inspired close reading of Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals, Wilson reconstructs the rich and strange emotional life of a woman too often dismissed as a self-effacing saint and handmaiden to her brother William Wordsworth. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $12.05! \| SVS
6	The Romantic Dream: Wordsworth and the Poetics of the Unconscious more books like this by Douglas Wilson add to wishlist Douglas B. Wilson's book traces the wide web of connections that the Romantics wove between dreams and other expressions of consciousness: sensation, emotions, illusions, creativity, personality, and memory. see all copies from $2.62! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
7	William Wordsworth - The Major Works: Including the Prelude more books like this by William Wordsworth, Professor Stephen Gill (Editor) add to wishlist This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important letters, prefaces, and essays - to give the essence of his work and thinking. William ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $9.97!
8	William Wordsworth's the Prelude: A Casebook more books like this by Professor Stephen Gill (Editor) add to wishlist William Wordsworth's long poem "The Prelude" is a fascinating work - as autobiography, the fruit of many attempts at understanding the formative period of Wordsworth's life; as a fragment of historical evidence from the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years; as an unstable literary text, which mutated through at least five discernible ... see all copies from $4.72! new only from $5.58! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Biographia Literaria more books like this by Samuel Taylor Coleridge add to wishlist Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of poetry and the language of common speech should be the ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $15.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s more books like this by David Bromwich add to wishlist Rethinking the popular conception of Wordsworth as the first of the dreamy-eyed, nature-loving, navel-gazing modern poets, this study looks at formative events in Wordsworth's early life--including the deaths of his parents and the French Revolution--and argues that those events led the poet to develop a radical sympathy with the outcast and the ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $16.75! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals more books like this by Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (Editor) add to wishlist 'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.' Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the height of his poetic powers. Invaluable for the insight they give into the daily life of the poet ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.69! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 more books like this by William Wordsworth, Jonathan Wordsworth (Editor), M H Abrams (Editor) add to wishlist This volume is the first to present Wordsworth's great poem in all three of its forms. see all copies from $3.67! new only from $14.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	Sonnet Series and Itinerary Poems, 1820-1845 more books like this by William Wordsworth add to wishlist see all copies from $37.95! new only from $48.45! \| first editions
14	William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism more books like this by Jonathan Wordsworth, Robert Woof, Michael C Jaye (Photographer) add to wishlist Published to accompany a museum exhibition in the United States in 1987, this work illuminates the achievement of William Wordsworth and relates that legacy to the revolutionary age in which he lived - an extraordinary era, giving rise to aesthetic, political, social, economic, and philosophical movements that transformed the western world and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	The Professional Wordsworth: Law, Labor & the Poet's Contract more books like this by Mark L Schoenfield add to wishlist William Wordsworth was engaged with legal discourse and institutions throughout his career. This study looks at the place of poetry as a professional and social force amid national debates on legal rights, public policy and economic order, in Wordsworth's day. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $76.05! \| first editions
16 view cover	Letters of William Wordsworth more books like this by William Wordsworth, Julia Hill, Alan G Hill (Editor) add to wishlist This book is intended for students of English literature and history; general readers; visitors to the Lake District. see all copies from $26.09! new only from $105.07! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802 more books like this by Professor John Worthen add to wishlist Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, and the two Hutchinson sisters Sara and Mary formed a closeknit group whose members saw or wrote to one another constantly. Coleridge, whose marriage was collapsing, was in love with Sara, and Wordsworth was about to be married to Mary. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.71! \| first editions
18	Wordsworth's poetry, 1787-1814 more books like this by Geoffrey H. Hartman add to wishlist see all copies from $18.99! first editions
19	Wordsworth: Play and Politics: A Study of Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1800 more books like this by John Turner add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
20	Wordsworth and the Lake District: A Guide to the Poems and Their Places more books like this by David McCracken add to wishlist From a variety of sources, including notes which Wordsworth dictated in the last years of his life, McCracken has established, often for the first time, the connections between the poems and the places which inspired them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	William Wordsworth more books like this by Geoffrey H Durrant add to wishlist Most people agree, perhaps without enthusiasm, that Wordsworth is 'great'; it is not easy to say why. Professor Durrant sets out to show this clearly, freshly and forcibly, with detailed reference to particular poems. He accepts that the great creative period of Wordsworth's life was from 1798 to 1805; that in those few years he produced the poems ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.12! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Wordsworth's Poem of the Mind: An Essay on the Prelude more books like this by Professor Ronald Gaskell add to wishlist Wordsworth's spiritual autobiography, "The Prelude", has long been recognized as his finest poem and the key to any understanding of his work. This study offers a close reading of the 1805 "Prelude" (the first complete version of the poem) linking it with many of Wordsworth's shorter poems. The complexity of Wordsworth's thinking about the mind ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.97!
23 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth more books like this by Professor Stephen Gill (Editor) add to wishlist The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth provides a wide-ranging account of one of the most famous Romantic poets. Specially commissioned essays cover all the important aspects of this multi-faceted writer; the volume examines his poetic achievement with a chapter on poetic craft, while other chapters focus on the origin of his poetry and on the ... see all copies from $25.20! new only from $25.29! \| SVS
24 view cover	Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment more books like this by Professor David Collings add to wishlist According to David Collings, Wordsworth interpreted the outbreak of war between England and France in 1793 as a cataclysmic event, one whose utterly disfiguring effect he would trace in his work over the next decade. Expanding upon this extravagant interpretation of events, Collings argues, Wordsworth constructed a poetics of cultural ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	William Wordsworth more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist Poet laureate of England from 1843 until his death in 1850, William Wordsworth is often credited as being one of the founders of English Romanticism. The 1798 joint publication of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads" marked a turning point in English poetry, as poets began to emphasize imagination and feeling over the primacy of reason. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.08! \| first editions \| SVS

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