William Wordsworth - The Story of His Life, With Critical Remarks on His Writings

James Middleton Sutherland's 1887 work “William Wordsworth” is a fantastic biography of the famous English Romantic poet, exploring the details of his personal life with reference to his seminal writings. William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet famous for helping to usher in the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of “Lyrical Ballads” (1798), which he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His best known work is perhaps “The Prelude”, a semi-autobiographical poem from his early years which was changed and expanded many times throughout his life. He was poet laureate of Britain between 1843 until his death in 1850. Contents include: “Some Tributes to Wordsworth's Eminence as a Poet”, “Wordsworth Makes a Tour in North Wales”, “Spends his Time Afterwards in Visiting his Friends”, “Wordsworth Settles with his Sister at Racedown Lodge, Near Crewkerne, Dorsetshire (1795)”, “The 'Lyrical Ballads'”, “Grasmere Described”, etc. This classic work is republished here in a new, modern, high-quality edition with additional biographical excerpt from Leigh Hunt, Anna Marie Hall and Thomas Carlyle.