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Here is "Wordsworth - A Life" by Juliet Barker, published by HarperCollins in their Ecco Division. It is a full autobiography, perhaps the first to treat the alter years of Wordsworth in detail. This is a remaindered copy, with a black remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text-block.
The following is excerpted from the jacket blurb:
"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 archetypical 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 a revolutionary as his politics, challenging convention in form, style and subject, and earning him the universal derision and contempt of critics.
"Only the unfailing encouragement of a tightly-knit group of supporters, his family, and , above all, Coleridge, kept him true to his poetic vision. In the half-century that followed his reputation was transformed. His advocacy of the importance of imagination and feeling touched a chord in an increasingly industrial, mechanistic age, and his influence was profoundly and widely felt in every sphere of life. Juliet Barker balances meticulous research with a readable style, and scrupulous objectivity with an understanding of her subject. She reveals not only the public figure who was courted and reviled in equal measure, but also the complex, elusive, private man behind the image."
TITLE : William Wordsworth - a Life
AUTHOR : Juliet Barker
IMPRINT : Ecco (Subsidiary of Harper Collins)
PLACE : New York
DATE : 2005
EDITION : First American Edition (So stated)
STATUS : Hardcover OP
PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; contains numerous monochrome illustrations and chapter heading vignettes, has a genealogical chart (Wordsworth Family Tree), and a map; includes an Index. x + 548 pages; 6" x9" quarter - bound, orange paper-covered boards, and black paper-covered spine - gilt lettering on spine; pictorial dust-jacket. Accompanying the book is a stapled, pictorial pamphlet from British Airways concerning a Wordsworth exhibition, titled "William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism".
CONDITION -- BOOK : NEAR VERY GOOD --- JACKET : VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that does not seem to have been read. It has but modest signs of handling and time's passage (slight fading along board edges; slight compression to spine extremities; a touch of weathering to text-block edges - which are basically clean. The only real disfigurement is the black remainder mark on the bottom text-block edge - Hence the book's condition grade. ) Binding is tight and the interior has no marking or writing. Dust-jacket has a bit of wear about the top and bottom edges, but is basically clean and fresh and still has the original publisher's price.
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