Bumming and Booing
John Mullan: William Wordsworth, 5 April 2001
The Hidden Wordsworth
by Kenneth Johnston.
Pimlico, 690 pp., £15, September 2000,0 7126 6752 0 Show More
by Kenneth Johnston.
Pimlico, 690 pp., £15, September 2000,
Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s
by David Bromwich.
Chicago, 186 pp., £9.50, April 2000,0 226 07556 7 Show More
by David Bromwich.
Chicago, 186 pp., £9.50, April 2000,
“... 1805 Prelude. Johnston believes, as David Bromwich often seems to in his study of Wordsworth’s major early poems, that ‘much of his poetry is even more autobiographical than we realise.’ Wordsworth’s poems, he claims, find hauntingly metaphorical expressions for ‘the facts of his life’, thereby concealing them. The thoughts about Wordsworth that ... ”