The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 - 965 strán (strany)
In this account, Kenneth R. Johnston portrays a Wordsworth different in crucial ways from the one that the poet intended us to know. Taking advantage of unprecedented access to government archives in England and France, family papers, school and university records, and intimate letters, he brings little-known aspects of Wordsworth's life and character to the fore. With its urban revolutions and Alpine scenery, French mistresses and passionate sisters, secret agents, aristocratic ogres, and furious guardian uncles, The Hidden Wordsworth unfolds a life that Byron might have envied. Johnston relates Wordsworth's attempt to cover up these personal details, his systematic and successful efforts to hide his "juvenile errors" from his contemporaries and from history. But they did not disappear: many of them stare us in the face from the lines of his greatest poetry, like purloined letters we have not seen because they are too obvious.

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Images of Wordsworth
3
THE CHILD IS FATHER
15
The Vale of Esthwaite
42
While We Were Schoolboys
69
Verses from the Impulse of My Own Mind
93
Stranger Lounger Lover
111
Young LoveLiking
135
Weighing the Man in the Balance
155
Triumphs of Failure
565
Wye Wandering
588
Mr Wordsworth
609
Writing in SelfDefense
630
Destination Unknown
654
PART III
655
WHAT IS A POET?
671
We Have Learnt to Know Its Value
673

Something of a Republic
175
Golden Hours
188
Golden Days and Giddy Prospects
203
OF THE
233
The Mighty Mind
263
Revolution and Romance
284
Castaway
329
A Return to France?
358
The Evidence of Speculation
378
Legacy Hunting
401
Philanthropy or Treason?
427
Of Cabbages and Radicals
468
An Independent Intellect
494
The Spy and the Mariner
516
The Mariner and the Recluse
550
Home at Grasmere
697
A k a Lyrical Ballads
721
Selling the Book Creating the Poet
751
Peace Marriage Inheritance
769
Disciples and Partners
792
The End of The Prelude
810
Presenting the Poet
821
Hiding the Man
834
Genealogical Chart
844
Was Wordsworth the Name Not to Be Mentioned?
847
Abbreviations
853
Notes
855
Bibliography
927
Index
935
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Kenneth R. Johnston chair of the English department at Indiana University, lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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