Myself and Some Other Being - Wordsworth and the Life Writing

"The story of Wordsworth becoming Wordsworth by writing the fragments and drafts of what would become The Prelude, a personal poem addressed to Coleridge that he kept hidden from the public until his death in 1850. Robinson shows that, by writing about himself and that other being, Wordsworth created an innovative autobiographical epic of becoming that is the masterpiece he believed he had failed to write"--

About the author

Daniel Robinson is professor of English at Widener University and the author of The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame and William Wordsworth's Poetry. He edited the complete poetry of Mary Robinson for The Works of Mary Robinson and is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings, and A Century of Sonnets, 1750-1850: The Romantic-Period Revival. He resides in Delaware County, just outside of Philadelphia, and is the singer-songwriter-bassist for the rock group Milton and the Devils Party .

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Robinson
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2014
• EAN: 9781609382322
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-232-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Muse Books: Iowa Series in Cre; Muse Books: The Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing; Muse Books; Muse Books: Iowa Series in Cre; Muse Books: The Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies