Wordsworth

As a boy, William Wordsworth climbed to an attic with a fencing foil, intending to kill himself—then lost his nerve. What was stirring in this moody, defiant child?

F. W. H. Myers’s late-nineteenth-century biography begins in Cumberland, where Wordsworth’s early years were marked by family loss, schooldays, and a powerful bond with the natural world. Told with scrupulous respect for the poet’s privacy, it draws on Wordsworth’s own recollections to trace the making of a restless boy who loved books, resisted correction, and found his deepest impressions outdoors. His family’s fortunes falter, his parents die, and the path ahead depends on the support of his uncles. How will the wild force of his childhood find its way into the poet he becomes?

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