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Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808  
Author: Richard E. Matlak
ISBN: 0874138159
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Deep Distresses is a psycho-biographical and cultural study of William Wordsworth's middle years and poetry that shows the poet's brother, Captain John Wordsworth, and the painter-aristocrat Sir George Beaumont to be the two pillars of the poet's life and poetry, rather than the marginal presences of other biographies. Even though today we assess the poetry of 1800-1807 as arguably the greatest by any poet writing in English of the entire nineteenth century, for the poet himself it was a period of stress, sadness, and failure.

SYNOPSIS

Matlak (English, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts) unravels the nexus of several poems by William published in 1807; his brother John, who sacrificed much for his brother's poetic vocation then died when the ship he captained sank; and a painting of a vessel in distress by Beaumont. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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