Unruly Times

Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

A S Byatt

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Vintage
05 September 1997

Biography; Biography: general; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: poetry & poets

With the insight only a novelist can provide, A. S. Byatt vividly conjures into being the world of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings alive this tumultuous period and shows a deep understanding of the effects upon the minds of Wordsworth, Coleridge and their contemporaries - de Quincey, Lamb, Hazlitt, Byron and Keats.

By: A S Byatt
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9780099302230
ISBN 10: 0099302233
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 September 1997
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge first met in 1795. Wordsworth had spent a year in Paris and returned shocked and disillusioned by the terror, and guilt-ridden by his affair with Annette Vallon and their illegitimate child. Reserved, uncertain of his future, the only person he felt happy with was his sister Dorothy. Coleridge, eloquent, brilliant ('entirely led away by the feeling of the moment', wrote a contemporary), was searching for stability. Their resulting friendship, first manifest by the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1796, is traced through many years and many vicissitudes in Byatt's erudite, sympathetic study of their lives and turbulent times. First published in 1970, re-issued unchanged but for the author's addendum about the subsequent discovery of William and Mary's 'revelatory' correspondence. (Kirkus UK)