A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020

'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times

'Richly repays reading ... It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much' Sunday Times

Jonathan Bate CBE is Provost of Worcester College and Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. He is Vice-President of the British Academy, a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a 2014 judge for the Man Booker Prize.