William Wordsworth: A Life

by Stephen Gill

Book Overview

At the age of twenty-eight, William Wordsworth had neither a settled income nor the professional qualifications needed to secure one. He had no home, and he could not support the illegitimate child he had fathered during an impetuous love affair in France. The total sum of his achievements since he had left Cambridge consisted of one slim, anonymously issued volume of Lyrical Ballads. Recognition came slowly, but by age seventy, he was revered as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192827472
• ISBN13: 9780192827470
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"