Wordsworth: A Life - Tapa blanda

'Read it for Barker's understanding of the human drama' Independent

'Read it for Barker's understanding of the human drama' Independent The figure of William Wordsworth looms over the nineteenth century like a presiding genius. Sage, seer, Poet Laureate, he was revered and honoured by his Victorian contemporariesas a writer of tender, lyrical poetry, champion of country life and, most of all, the great spirit communing with nature. Drawing on unpublished sources Juliet Barker presents a new picture of Wordsworth, as both the public icon and private family man. WORDSWORTH is a major biography of one of Britain's most famous poets and a vivid portrait of a fiercely passionate man.