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The lives of the Romantic poets have been examined mainly through the evidence they have left behind: letters, journals, diaries, and their own self-revealing poems and essays. The Hidden Wordsworth reveals the radical young poet whose fiery intellect revolutionized English poetry.

Presents short, lively biographies of more than a dozen brilliant young writers of the Romantic period.

In this fascinating account, Kenneth R. Johnston portrays a Wordsworth different in crucial ways from the one the poet intended us to know. Taking advantage of unprecedented access to archives, family papers, and letters, he reveals the poet's complex relationship with his sister Dorothy, the full story of the affair with his French mistress, Annette Vallon, and his surprisingly close connections to both radical reformers and the political est...