Background
He was a great-great-great nephew of William Wordsworth and the great-great-grandson of Christopher Wordsworth, the younger brother of the poet and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Jonathan Wordsworth
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He was educated at Westminster School and Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1957 he became a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, where there is now a postgraduate scholarship in his name.
Career
He was an authority on the work of William Wordsworth on whom he concentrated the bulk of his academic writings. He was later Professor of English Literature at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford. His students at Oxford included Martin Amis, Christopher Reid, Craig Raine, North. West. O. Royle, and Robert J.C. Young.
He was the Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust (1976 – 2002) and its President thereafter.
His work appeared in the London Review of Books.
