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Title: The Hidden Wordsworth
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393321592
ISBN 13: 9780393321593
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 2.06 pounds

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"This is a Wordsworth we have never quite seen before."―Hermione Lee, The New York Times

In this fascinating account, Kenneth R. Johnston portrays a Wordsworth different in crucial ways from the one the poet intended us to know. Taking advantage of unprecedented access to archives, family papers, and letters, he reveals the poet's complex relationship with his sister Dorothy; the full story of the affair with his French mistress, Annette Vallon; and his surprisingly close connections to both radical reformers and the political establishment of his day, including members of the newly formed British Secret Service in England and Germany. The Hidden Wordsworth also explores the poet's intense and often destructive relations with a cluster of young writers, leading up to his friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This brilliantly insightful biography breaks through the carefully crafted but frequently misleading accounts of his youth Wordsworth created in his conservative later years. The Hidden Wordsworth reveals the radical young poet whose powerful intellect revolutionized English poetry. Winner of the 1998 Jean Baracelli Prize from the American Conference on Romanticism; shortlisted for the James Tait Black biography prize (UK); a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "Full of fresh information, fresh insights, and fresh intelligent critical readings of the poetry."―Stephen M. Parrish, editor, The Cornell Wordsworth 39 black and white illustrations

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Kenneth R. Johnston, Ruth N. Halls Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University, lives in Chicago.

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