Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

The life and times of the celebrated Romantic poet is revealed in this "magnificent biography . . . Both erudite and utterly absorbing" (Daily Mail).

This is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. William Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He and his fellow Romantics changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection t...