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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben und besto�n, Papier altersgem�leicht gebr�t, unbeschnitten, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / slightly rubbed and bumped, paper slightly browned due to age, untrimmed, otherwise perfect condition - PREFACE -- Love of Wordsworth�s poetry, and a feeling that its appeal to others might be increased if the facts of his life and the extent of his connection with the Revolutionary movement were more fully set forth, led me, more than ten years ago, to undertake this work. His first biographer, the Bishop of Lincoln, who was his nephew, presented to the world a very inadequate portrait, in which the romantic and insubordinate youth of the poet was overlaid with the decorous and only mildly interesting features of his old age. The mere physical proportions of the Bishop�s �Memoirs� show what an opportunity he lost. Nearly two-thirds of that work was devoted to the poet�s later years, when his personal and literary adventures were at an end, and he sad given up his gallant struggle on behalf of equality and simplicity. Only eight pages, for example, in a total of about one thousand, dealt with what was by tar the most momentous period of the poet�s life - namely, his residence in France. There were reasons for this reticence - theological, political, and domestic reasons - which influenced the Bishop, but may be now disregarded. -- Unfortunately, Professor Knight, in his voluminous Life,� was affected by the same restrictions, and his work follows, in general, the same scheme of values as the � Memoirs.�