WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: A LIFE
by Stephen Gill
Published by Oxford University Press. 1989
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The author draws on knowledge of the poet's creative practices and his reputation and influence in his life-time and beyond. Refusing to treat the poet's later years as of little interest, this biography presents a narrative of the whole of Wordsworth's long life--1770 to 1850--tracing the development from the adventurous youth who alone of the great Romantic poets saw life in revolutionary France to the old man who became Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xix and 525 pages including index.
Reprint in the same year as first publication. Boards clean. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine.
ISBN: 0198128282
Stock no. 1831310
