Life of William Wordsworth

By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet s most creative period of life and writing. * Features new research into Wordsworth 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 The Recluse * Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge