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" Wordsworth : "
Juliet Barker.
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BL
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1011302
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b765672
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| Main Entry
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Barker, Juliet R. V.
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| Title & Author
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Wordsworth : : a life /\ Juliet Barker.
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| Edition Statement
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1st American ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Ecco,, 2005.
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xviii, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map, genealogical tables ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0060787317
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: 0060787368
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: 9780060787318
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: 9780060787363
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Abstract
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Orphaned and dependent on the charity of unsympathetic relatives, Wordsworth became the archetypal teenage rebel. He went to Revolutionary France, where he fathered an illegitimate daughter and became a committed republican. His poetry was as revolutionary as his politics, challenging convention in form, style, and subject, and earning him the contempt of critics. Only the encouragement of a group of supporters, above all Coleridge, kept him true to his poetic vocation. In the half-century that followed, his reputation was transformed. His advocacy of imagination and feeling touched a chord in an increasingly industrial, mechanistic age, and his influence was profoundly felt in every sphere of life. In the last decade of his life, his home became a place of pilgrimage for people who came to pay their respects to his genius. His legacy, as a poet and as the spiritual founder of the conservation movement, remains with us today.--From publisher description.
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| Subject
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
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Poets, English-- 19th century, Biography.
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Poets, English.
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| Dewey Classification
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821/.7
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PR5881.B27 2005
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