The Hidden Wordsworth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth R. Johnston
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1770-1850
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Ann Cookson Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sir James Lowther, Annette Vallon, Caroline Vallon “Williams, Mary Hutchinson Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Creative process, Romanticism, Learning or scholarship
- Locales: France, England
Romanticism conjures up the notion of unconventional behavior, though collegiality was often strained even among those who accepted its general principles. Percy Bysshe Shelley could willingly accept the political views of his friend George Gordon, Lord Byron, and even tolerate Byron’s sexual excesses. Indeed, the exoticism of Byron made him a far more important figure in his own day than either the passing of time or the quality of much of his poetry have justified. What captured Shelley’s imagination about Byron, the willingness to risk everything for an ideal or an experience,...
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