Wordsworth's poems of travel, 1819-42
Subtitle: such sweet wayfaring
By: John Wyatt.
Series: Romanticism in perspective
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Travel.; Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism.; Poetics -- History -- 19th century.; Romanticism -- England.; Old age in literature.; Travel in literature.; Aging in literature.
Description: "After William Wordsworth reached his fiftieth year, his publications took new directions, which have been rejected or regarded as mysteries by later generations. This book examines the remarkable sets of poems arising from short journeys in Yorkshire, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, and from more substantial itineraries in Europe.

These are a record of a middle-aged and, later, old man actively 'wayfaring', as he expressed it, gathering impressions of places and people and turning them with poetic skill into sequences which, when examined, turn out to be statements of a poet's duty and England's destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.