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,
“... them. Academic critics are often enamoured of Wordsworth’s youthful allegiances. Kenneth Johnston’s The Hidden Wordsworth is almost mystically committed to the idea of his youth. Its prologue declares that, with all the reverence (and matching irreverence) the poet has inspired, there is one image, or story, that we have not ... ”