By examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing.

• Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially


• Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The Recluse’


• Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge