The Life of William Wordsworth

By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworths early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poets most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworths financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem The Recluse Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge