Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808
Deep Distresses is a psycho-biographical and cultural study of William Wordsworth's middle years and poetry that shows the poet's brother, Captain John Wordsworth, and the painter-aristocrat Sir George Beaumont to be the two pillars of the poet's life and poetry, rather than the marginal presences of other biographies. Even though today we assess the poetry of 1800-1807 as arguably the greatest by any poet writing in English of the entire nineteenth century, for the poet himself it was a...
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Matlak (English, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts) unravels the nexus of several poems by William published in 1807; his brother John, who sacrificed much for his brother's poetic vocation then died when the ship he captained sank; and a painting of a vessel in distress by Beaumont. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Illustrations9Preface11Introduction17Pt. ICaptain John Wordsworth and the Prophecy of "Michael" 251The Pure252Jehan Kumpani333The Many Impure384"What does it profit a man?"455John/Luke and William/Michael48Pt. IISinking Vocations581Confrontations on Land and Sea582"the waters of the deep/Gathering upon us"743"A Young Man who was lost"844Versions of "a deep distress"865"portrayed on the TEA-TRAY"106Pt. IIIBeaumont and the Promotion of Wordsworth1131"Patron of Genius"1132Great Events and Poetry1233Peel Castle in a Storm1284"Elegiac Stanzas"1405Poems, in Two Volumes1496Distressing Reviews of Poems, in Two Volumes154Postscript162App"Narrative of the Loss of the Earl of Abergavenny, East Indiaman"165Notes171Bibliography188Index198
