{"product_id":"2026200015098-secondhand-william-wordsworth-a-biography-the-early-years-1770-1803","title":"William Wordsworth: A Biography: The Early Years 1770-1803","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets have shaped the English literary imagination as profoundly as William Wordsworth, and Mary Moorman's landmark biography illuminates the formative decades that forged his genius. William Wordsworth: A Biography — The Early Years 1770–1803 chronicles the poet's life from his birth in the rugged landscapes of the Lake District through his radical youth, his tumultuous time in Revolutionary France, his passionate friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the watershed years that culminated in the publication of the Lyrical Ballads — the collection that would permanently alter the course of English literature.\n\nMoorman writes with scholarly precision and narrative grace, drawing on an extraordinary wealth of letters, journals, and contemporary accounts to reconstruct not merely a life, but an entire intellectual and emotional world. She presents Wordsworth as a figure of profound contradictions — a man of democratic idealism and personal turmoil, whose encounters with nature, loss, and political disillusionment were transmuted into some of the most enduring verse in the English language. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this first volume stands as the definitive account of Wordsworth's early life, leaving the reader eager to discover how the turbulent young wanderer would ultimately become the Poet Laureate of England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203189154011,"sku":"2026200015098-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b097fe9b-7eec-42c9-9f7f-d55790940a40.png?v=1788145349","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015098-secondhand-william-wordsworth-a-biography-the-early-years-1770-1803","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}