Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth (28 November 1932 – 21 June 2006) was an English academic, literary critic and expert on the Romantic era in literature.
He was an authority on the work of William Wordsworth on whom he concentrated the bulk of his academic writings.
[1] He gave the 1969 Chatterton Lecture on Poetry[2] His students at Oxford included Martin Amis, Christopher Reid, Craig Raine, Nicholas Roe, N. W. O. Royle, and Robert J.C. Young.
He left behind three wives − the literary theorist Ann (Sherratt) Wordsworth, Lucy Newlyn, Professor of English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and Jessica Prince; and seven children − four with Ann and three with Jessica including Helen, Giles and Teddy.
[4] His many critical pieces, innovative editions and books on his famous relative include: