William and Dorothy Wordsworth - ''All in Each Other''

William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Preface


• Chapter One: Homeless


• Chapter Two: Windy Brow and Racedown


• Chapter Three: Alfoxden


• Chapter Four: Hamburg


• Chapter Five: Goslar and Sockburn


• Chapter Six: Homecoming


• Chapter Seven: Dwelling


• Chapter Eight: The Grasmere Journal


• Chapter Nine: The Orchard at Town End


• Chapter Ten: Scotland


• Chapter Eleven: Grasmere and Coleorton


• Chapter Twelve: The Lake District


• Chapter Thirteen: The Continent


• Chapter Fourteen: Wanderlust


• Chapter Fifteen: Rydal


• Chapter Sixteen: Home


• Abbreviations


• Bibliography

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lucy Newlyn was born in Uganda, grew up in Leeds, and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is now Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She has published widely on English Romantic Literature, including three books with Oxford University Press. Her book Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (OUP, 2000) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in 2001. More recently she has been working on the prose writings of Edward Thomas. Together with Guy Cuthbertson she edited Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry, as well as England and Wales, a volume in the ongoing OUP edition of Thomas's prose. Married with a daughter and two step-children, Lucy Newlyn lives in Oxford. Ginnel, her first collection of poetry, was published in 2005.

Zusammenfassung

William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.

Zusatztext

I can't recommend this book highly enough to anyone interested in this fascinating creative partnership. It manages to be both scholarly and immensely readable, with, of course, the exemplary notes and bibliography we always expect from Oxford University Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lucy Newlyn, Lucy (Professor of English At Oxford Unive Newlyn, Lucy (Professor of English at Oxford University; Fellow and Tutor in English at St Edmund Hall) Newlyn, Newlyn Lucy
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.09.2016
• EAN: 9780198728146
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872814-6
• Seiten: 402
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Biographien, Autobiographien; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, English, Cumbria, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Cumbria & Lake District