A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020-Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact- Financial Times-Richly repays reading - It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much- Sunday TimesA dazzling new biography of Wordsworth-s radical life as a thinker and poetical innovator, published to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth.William Wordsworth wrote the first great poetic autobiography. We owe to him the idea that places of outstanding natural beauty should become what he called -a sort of national property-. He changed forever the way we think about childhood, about the sense of the self, about our connection to the natural environment, and about the purpose of poetry.He was born among the mountains of the English Lake District. He walked into the French Revolution, had a love affair and an illegitimate child, before witnessing horrific violence in Paris. His friendship with Samuel Taylor Cole
