Jonathan Bate
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxii, 586 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age. Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 471 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.