Stephen Charles Gill
Auteur de William Wordsworth: A Life
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Stephen Charles Gill
Wordsworth: The Prelude (Landmarks of World Literature) (1991) — Directeur de publication — 16 exemplaires
Salisbury Plain Poems of William Wordsworth (Cornell Wordsworth) (1975) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Marie Barton (1848) — Contributeur, quelques éditions; Introduction, quelques éditions — 2,669 exemplaires
Les diamants Eustace (1871) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions; Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,979 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1941
- Sexe
- male
- Études
- Oxford University (Lincoln College)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 209
- Popularité
- #106,076
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 26
Gill's Life is a sober, academic account, staying away from gossip and speculation and focussing on Wordsworth's writing and the things that were directly relevant to it. It's lively and readable, but it's clearly designed in the first place for readers who are engaging with the poetry and are looking for context and background. And that's important, because Wordsworth really is a writer who is involved in the politics of his own times. However, if you just want anecdotes about home-life in Dove Cottage or detailed maps that will allow you to retrace Wordsworth's treks across the fells, this is not the place for it.
Something Gill is very interested in is the way Wordsworth often seems to be defined more by what he did not write than what he did, in particular the long philosophical poem "The Recluse" which he had planned out with Coleridge's encouragement, and to which "The Prelude" was supposed to act as a kind of introduction. "The Excursion" would have been one part of "The Recluse", but Wordsworth really wasn't a man for abstracting and systematising his ideas: he was passionately interested in what could be learnt from digging into the individual human experience, but he was sceptical about any ideas that started to float free of that foundation.… (plus d'informations)