Radical Wordsworth
The Poet Who Changed the World
Jonathan Bate
"Radical Wordsworth" is a biography that presents a revolutionary poet who changed the world. This book celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth, showcasing his role in the cultural upheaval of the Romantic Revolution. The author highlights how Wordsworth's poetry forever changed our perspective on childhood, the self, the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. "Radical Wordsworth" is a beautifully written, purposefully fragmentary, and selective biography.
Publish Date
2020-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
2020-05-12T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.08
ISBN
9780300169645
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2020-10-25T11:28:28.000Z
Today’s book. Jonathan Bate makes strong case for Wordsworth as in many ways the first modern Green - ‘Love of Nature leading to Love of Mankind’ being a dominant theme of The Prelude, which Coleridge said was ‘a sort of experience like the effect of lightening’ – source