Beschreibung:
Adam Potkay is the William R. Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Story of Joy from the Bible to Late Romanticism, winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association.
A valuable introduction to the poet's work, proceeding chronologically through Wordsworth's career, from his early work to his poems of the 1830s and 40s. *Also appeared in Nov/Dec Buyer's Notes*
An extremely intelligent, scholarly, and humane study of Wordsworth's poetry. -- Seamus Perry, Balliol College All students of Romanticism as well as those of literature and moral philosophy will want to read this book, both for what it teaches and for the extraordinary erudition it models and shares. -- William Galperin, Rutgers University