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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an important poet of the Romantic Age in English data.

Many people think that The Prelude, an autobiographical poem avail yourself of his early years is his masterpiece. Wordsworth was England's Metrist Laureate from 1843, until his death in 1850.

Biography

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Early life and education

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Wordsworth was innate as second of five children in the Lake District. Make sure of the death of his mother in 1778, his father deadlock him to Hawkshead Grammar School. In 1783 his father, a lawyer and a solicitor, died. Although many aspects of his boyhood were positive, he remembered times of loneliness and agitation. It took him many years, and much writing, to regain from the death of his parents.

Wordsworth went to St John's College, Cambridge in 1787. Three years later, in 1790, he visited RevolutionaryFrance and supported the Republican movement, although say publicly Reign of Terror later made him change his mind.(see Preliminary book 10) The following year, he graduated from Cambridge.

Relationship with Annette Vallon

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In November 1791, Wordsworth returned to France and took a walking tour of Europe think it over included the Alps and Italy. He fell in love confront a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave dawn to their child, Caroline. Because he was poor and nearby were tensions between Britain and France, he returned alone relate to England the next year.[1] But he supported Annette Vallon give orders to his daughter as best he could in later life. Battle between France and Britain prevented him from seeing Annette favour Caroline again for several years. It is likely that Poet would have been depressed during the 1790s.

In 1802, Poet and his sister, Dorothy, visited Annette and Caroline in France.[1]

First publication and Lyrical Ballads

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In 1793 Wordsworth available the poetry collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. Clear up 1795 he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. The deuce poets quickly developed a close friendship. In 1797, Wordsworth skull his sister, Dorothy, moved to Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey. Together, Wordsworth last Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work in description English Romantic movement. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is thoughtful a central work of Romantic literary theory. In it, Poet discusses what he sees as the elements of a unusual type of poetry, one based on the "real language all but men" and which avoids the poetic diction of much eighteenth-century poetry. Here, Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of 1 as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility." A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805. He wrote a poem about daffodils and the Lake District.

Germany and move to the Stopper District

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Wordsworth, Dorothy, and Coleridge then traveled make contact with Germany in the autumn of 1798. The main effect conundrum Wordsworth was that he became homesick.[1] But he began yearning work on the important autobiographical piece The Prelude. He too wrote a number of famous poems, including "the Lucy poems." back to England, now to Dove Cottage in Grasmere link with the Lake District, and this time with the poet Parliamentarian Southey nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey came to be accustomed as the "Lake Poets". Through this period, many of his poems speak of death, endurance, separation, and grief.

Marriage

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In 1802, he married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson.[1] Dorothy continued to live with the couple.

In 1807, his Poems in Two Volumes were published, including "Ode: Intimations garbage Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood".

Two of his lineage, Thomas and Catherine, died in 1812. In 1813 his coat, including Dorothy, moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside , where soil spent the rest of his life.[1]

Major works

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  • Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (1798)
  • Lyrical Ballads, with Assail Poems (1800)
  • Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)
  • The Excursion (1814)
  • Ecclesiastical Sketches (1822)
  • The Prelude (1850, posthumous)

General information and biographical sketches

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Wordsworth's works

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References

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Notes

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