RADICAL WORDSWORTH

A dazzling new biography of Wordsworths radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary o f his birth.William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called a sort of national property. He changed forever the way we think about childhood, about the s ense of the self, about our connection to the natural environment, and about the purpose of poetry.He was born among the mountains o f the Engli...[Read more]