OREL, H. William Wordsworth. Palgrave Macmillan. 2005.

OREL, H. William Wordsworth. Palgrave Macmillan. 2005.

Hardback, 216pp., NEW, William Wordsworth: Interviews and Recollections collects and reprints generous extracts from the texts that record opinions and characterizations, by 22 of England's most important writers, of their inter-actions with Wordsworth. Each of the following had lively and perceptive things to say about him, and none claimed to be neutral or objective: William Godwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincy, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Robert Southey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, John Hamilton Reynolds, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, John Stuart Mill, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Aubrey Thomas de Vere, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Henry Crabb Robinson, Matthew Arnold and Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this volume a reader will discover the reasons why Wordsworth attracted, in varying degrees, the admiration as well as the dislike of many of his most talented contemporaries.
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