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Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont : 1800-1808
Richard E. Matlak
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Description for Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont : 1800-1808
hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 508.
Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother's death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of professional duress. Both topics become related through the intercession of the poet's patron, Sir George Beaumont, who attempts to ameliorate the family tragedy with money and his painting of Peel Castle in a Storm, while hoping to groom Wordsworth for a place among the cultural elite of ... Read more
Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother's death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of professional duress. Both topics become related through the intercession of the poet's patron, Sir George Beaumont, who attempts to ameliorate the family tragedy with money and his painting of Peel Castle in a Storm, while hoping to groom Wordsworth for a place among the cultural elite of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611492248
SKU
V9781611492248
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About Richard E. Matlak
Richard Matlak is a Professor of English and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies at the College of the Holy Cross.
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