Author Description

By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth{u2019}s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet{u2019}s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth{u2019}s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially; Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem {u2018}The Recluse{u2019}; Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge. --Provided by publisher.