As perhaps the central figure of Britain's Romantic Revolution, William Wordsworth changed forever the way we think about childhood, the sense of the self, our connection to the natural environment, and the purpose of poetry. While chronicling his own lifelong fascination with Wordsworth, Jonathan Bate offers an unconventional biography of the poet, in which key scenes and relationships are illuminated in prose that is itself poetic, colorful, opinionated, and deeply revealing.